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Mythic Mandarin

令 (lìng): meaning and stroke order

令 (lìng) means to order, to command, an order, warrant, writ, to cause, to make sth happen, virtuous.

令

Simplified
令
Traditional
令 (same form)
Pinyin
lìng · lǐng · líng

Stroke order of 令

令

  • líng used in 脊令[ji2 ling2]; used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])
  • lǐng classifier for a ream of paper
  • lìng to order; to command
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 令

  1. lìng
    • 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
  2. lǐng
    • classifier for a ream of paper
  3. líng
    • used in 脊令[ji2 ling2]
    • used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])

Radical and structure

令
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 5 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 令

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).