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Mythic Mandarin

让 (ràng): meaning and stroke order

让 (ràng) means to yield, to permit, to let sb do sth, to have sb do sth, to make sb (feel sad etc).

让

Simplified
让
Traditional
讓
Pinyin
ràng

Stroke order of 让

让

  • ràng to yield; to permit
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 讓

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 让

  1. ràng Traditional 讓
    • to yield
    • to permit
    • to let sb do sth
    • to have sb do sth
    • to make sb (feel sad etc)
    • by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])

Radical and structure

让
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 5 strokes · 讠 on the left, 上 on the right

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.

让 in our stories

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  • 露西第一次去四川饭馆，她的中国朋友韩冰让她点菜。

    Lùxī dì-yī cì qù Sìchuān fànguǎn tā de Zhōngguó péngyou Hán Bīng ràng tā diǎncài

    Lucy is at a Sichuan restaurant for the first time, and her Chinese friend Han Bing lets her order.

    From the story "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3

  • 后羿舍不得离开妻子嫦娥，就让她把药放好。

    Hòu Yì shěbude líkāi qīzi Cháng'é jiù ràng tā bǎ yào fàng hǎo

    Hou Yi couldn't bear to leave his wife Chang'e, so he had her keep the medicine safe.

    From the story Chang'e flies to the moon HSK 3

  • 有人笑着让吴迪也试一试，他红着脸做了三个，就再也上不去了。

    yǒurén xiào zhe ràng Wú Dí yě shì yí shì tā hóng zhe liǎn zuò le sān gè jiù zài yě shàng bú qù le

    Someone laughingly told Wu Di to have a go. Red-faced, he did three and then couldn't pull himself up again.

    From the story Pull-ups HSK 4

Stories using 让

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).