漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
令: orders, laws
Also: command, decree, good
JLPT N25 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
- 人person(meaning)
- 一one(form)
- マ(form)
人 carries the meaning · 一 and マ are drawn in
5 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
レイrei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 命令するめいれいするorder, command [v.t.]
- 辞令じれいnotice of personnel change
- 号令ごうれいword of command, order
- 政令せいれいgovernment ordinance
- 戒厳令かいげんれいmartial law
- 令れいcommand; order; dictation
- 命令めいれい
- 指令しれいorder; directive; instructions
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Shelter under the roof! This radical looks like a person spreading their arms wide or a simple roof over a home.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
マ
Also built on マ
令 gives its sound to
The family reading is レイ (rei). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · lìng
Same form: 令 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 令 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 令 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lìng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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