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命令 (mìng lìng): meaning and stroke order

命令 (mìng lìng) means order, command, CL:道个.

命令

Simplified
命令
Traditional
命令 (same form)
Pinyin
mìng lìng

Stroke order of 命令

命

  • mìng life; fate
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

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 命令

  1. mìng lìng
    • order
    • command
    • CL:道[dao4],個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

命
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 8 strokes
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.

命令 in our stories

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  • 赵括的母亲听说后，急忙给赵王写信，请求他收回命令：“他父亲生前说过，这孩子不能带兵。”

    Zhào Kuò de mǔqīn tīngshuō hòu jímáng gěi Zhào Wáng xiě xìn qǐngqiú tā shōuhuí mìnglìng tā fùqīn shēngqián shuō guò zhè háizi bù néng dàibīng

    When Zhao Kuo's mother heard, she hurriedly wrote to the king asking him to withdraw the order: "His father said while he was alive that this boy must not command troops."

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 官员想了一夜，第二天下了一道奇怪的命令：全村的男人，必须在中午以前把自己家的镰刀带到广场上来，谁不来，谁就是凶手。

    guānyuán xiǎng le yí yè dì-èr tiān xià le yí dào qíguài de mìnglìng quáncūn de nánrén bìxū zài zhōngwǔ yǐqián bǎ zìjǐ jiā de liándāo dài dào guǎngchǎng shàng lái shéi bù lái shéi jiù shì xiōngshǒu

    The official thought all night, and the next day issued a strange order: every man in the village must bring his household's sickle to the square before noon; whoever failed to come would be taken for the killer.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 命令

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).