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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *令* | 令* | *令
to order / to command / an order / warrant / writ / to cause / to make sth happen / virtuous / honorific title / season / government position (old) / type of short song or poem
HSK 5
order / command / CL: , 個|个
HSK 5
to give an order; to issue an order
HSK 7-9
summer camp
HSK 7-9
commanding officer
HSK 7-9
order / command / instruction
HSK 7-9
oral command / a word of command (used in drilling troops or gymnasts) / password (used by sentry)
HSK 7-9
decree; ordinance
Your esteemed father (honorific)
to follow your orders / roger! / yessir!
autumn / autumn weather
military orders are like mountains (idiom) / a military order must be obeyed
decree / (of a court) to order
to play a drinking game
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *令* | 令* | *令
used in 脊令 / used in 令狐 (Taiwan pr. [ling4])
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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classifier for a ream of paper
Reiwa, Japanese era name, corresponding to the reign (2019-) of emperor Naruhito 德仁
military order
prohibition / ban
an order (esp. army) / bugle call expressing military order / verbal command
the Bering Strait (between Siberia and Alaska)
to order / to force
(archaic) wooden or metal token of authority / (fig.) decree / directive / (computing) token
commander
order for arrest / wanted circular / wanted poster
county magistrate (during Tang to Qing times)
satisfying / satisfactory
to disobey / to go against orders
government decree
commander without any soldiers; (fig.) leader without a team; solo entrepreneur
to order / to enjoin / to charge / to instruct sb to finish sth
(idiom) to make one feel a sense of revulsion; abhorrent; heinous; deeply disturbing
to boss people around (idiom)
commander-in-chief / top military commander for a country or theater of operations
to be in season / seasonal
tongue-twister
to transmit an order
old place name (in present-day Linyi County 臨猗縣|临猗县, Shanxi) / two-character surname Linghu
imperial order
encouraging / heartening
inspiring / exciting / rousing
(military) messenger / orderly
air commodore / top commander of air force
prohibition / ban / law forbidding sth
secret instruction / secret order
to wave a chicken feather as a token of authority (idiom); to assume unwarranted authority on the basis of some pretext
martial law
decree to grant a special pardon
Bering Sea
polite speech; diplomatic language; rhetoric
to shout an order or command
to order / to force
festive season / happy time / noble principle
admirable
winter / winter climate
Your esteemed parent (honorific)
starting pistol
to shock / to amaze
Your esteemed older brother (honorific)
(expr.) hold the feudal overlord and you control his vassals
if / supposing that / acting county magistrate
to issue an order
(courteous) your daughter
amnesty / pardon
mobilization order
to cause one (to do sth) / to make one (angry, delighted etc)
imperative sentence
Your esteemed mother (honorific)
typical weather in a given season
decree
to decree
honorable little brother
to issue orders / to order sb to drink in a drinking game
an order / a command
Imperial order or edict (old)
to ask sb to leave / to show sb the door / to give a tenant notice to leave
(honorific) your mother
arrow banner of command (archaic used as symbol of military authority) / fig. instructions from one's superiors
even if / even though
to make frequent or unpredictable changes in policy (idiom)
the First Emperor's order to expel foreigners / (fig.) notice to leave / words or behavior intended at turning visitors out
Darling (name)
Delingha city in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai
token ring network
lit. order like a mountain / a military order is inviolable / strict discipline
good name / reputation
variant of 辭令|辞令
second in command
to be glib in one's speech and wear an ingratiating expression (idiom)
to order again and again (idiom)
your esteemed son (honorific)
to lose one's head through material greed (idiom)
order / instruction
spring / springtime / spring weather
lit. orders are carried out and prohibitions are observed (idiom)fig. to execute every order without fail
your wife (honorific)
variant of 令愛|令爱
tongue twister
banishment order / expulsion warrant
Delingha city in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai

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