令 · lìng
command, order; 'commandant', magistrate; allow, cause
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
command, order; 'commandant', magistrate; allow, cause
- Mandarin
- lìng
- Cantonese
- ling6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 令 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 령
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
- 영
- KS X 1001 (0)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+4EE4
- Radical
- 人 · 9
- Strokes
- 5 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
5 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 令
Character connections
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Reverse links to attributed component analyses. Open each character for its role, source and words. Shared components do not establish word ancestry.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- ljen · 力延 反切 · #613
- Middle Chinese
- ljeng · 呂貞 反切 · #922
- Middle Chinese
- leng · 郎丁 反切 · #939
- Middle Chinese
- ljengH · 力政 反切 · #2980
- Middle Chinese
- lengH · 郎定 反切 · #3002
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 4953 · ljen = 山開三平仙來 · ljeng = 梗開三平清來 · leng = 梗開四平青來 · ljengH = 梗開三去清來 · lengH = 梗開四去青來
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- lìng
- kCantonese
- ling6
- kDefinition
- command, order; 'commandant', magistrate; allow, cause
- kTotalStrokes
- 5
- kRSUnicode
- 9.3
- kGradeLevel
- 3
- kTGH
- 2013:282
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- lìng,líng,lián,lǐng 10111.100
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- líng 0719.070 · lǐng 0722.040 · lìng 0723.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- líng 225.250 · lǐng 227.070 · lìng 227.110
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- lìng(453)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- lìng粵ling6 lǐng粵lim1 líng粵ling4
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 力延 呂貞 郎丁 力政 郎定
- Kangxi positions
- 0093.120
- Guangyun positions
- 139.13 192.32 196.17 431.08 432.38
- GSR references
- 0823a
- Cangjie
- OINI
- Four-corner
- 8030.7