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令
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Definitions
- 1. to order
- 2. to command
- 3. an order
- 4. warrant
- 5. writ
- 6. to cause
- 7. to make sth happen
- 8. virtuous
- 9. honorific title
- 10. season
- 11. type of short song or poem
Example Sentences
1 shown那 令 你快樂嗎 ?
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Words Containing 令
lit. order like a mountain
starting pistol
prohibition
second in command
to obey orders
(courteous) your daughter
to give an order
encouraging
festive season
good name
even if
summer camp
Your esteemed mother (honorific)
to cause one (to do sth)
seasonal medication
to disobey
gag order
to order
to lose one's head over lust
ringgit (Malaysian currency unit)
(computing) instruction set
commander
imperial order
to shock
command name
Murray-Darling river system in the southeast of Australia
oral command
honorable reputation
discouraging
Yuan Yuling (-1674) Qing writer, author of 西樓記|西楼记[xī lóu jì]
to follow your orders
daylight saving time
speech command (for computer speech recognition)
government decree
search warrant
inspiring
banishment order
headquarters
to play a drinking game
autumn
your esteemed son (honorific)
Delingha city in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[hǎi xī měng gǔ zú zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Qinghai
signaling (engineering)
Darling (name)
imperative sentence
your wife (honorific)
military order
(honorific) your mother
commander-in-chief
amnesty
Bering Sea
order
honorable little brother
tongue twister
(honorific) your parents
Your esteemed father (honorific)
to issue an order
see 令行禁止[lìng xíng jìn zhǐ]
(archaic) wooden or metal token of authority
to issue orders
polite speech
your wife (honorific)
lit. one general, one order (idiom)
to decree
to be glib in one's speech and wear an ingratiating expression (idiom)
to lose one's head through material greed (idiom)
to order by force
(idiom) to make one feel a sense of revulsion; abhorrent; heinous; deeply disturbing
order for arrest
token ring
military orders are like mountains (idiom)
commander
shilling (loanword)
wine-drinking game
Reiwa, Japanese era name, corresponding to the reign (2019-) of emperor Naruhito 德仁[dé rén]
to make frequent or unpredictable changes in policy (idiom)
Your esteemed parent (honorific)
if
to order again and again (idiom)
(military) messenger
to wave a chicken feather as a token of authority (idiom); to assume unwarranted authority on the basis of some pretext
unpleasant
typical weather in a given season
writ
air commodore
admirable
command line (computing)
Delingha city in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[hǎi xī měng gǔ zú zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Qinghai
general headquarters
secret instruction
grand scribe (official position in many Chinese states up to the Han)
Linghu Defen (583-666), Tang dynasty historian, compiler of History of Zhou of the Northern dynasties 周書|周书
decree; ordinance
prohibition
arrow banner of command (archaic used as symbol of military authority)
to order
prohibition
satisfying
to astonish
the Qing order to all men to shave their heads but keep a queue, first ordered in 1646
county magistrate (during Tang to Qing times)
executive order
to be in season
smile lines
token ring network
mobilization order
to lift a prohibition
to shout an order or command
to indulge
martial law
decree to grant a special pardon
to order
order
the First Emperor's order to expel foreigners
winter
Riesling (grape type)
an order
an order (esp. army)
an order to post a reward (for the capture of a criminal)
summer
warrant (law)
order
lit. orders are carried out and prohibitions are observed (idiom)fig. to execute every order without fail
tongue-twister
standard time (as opposed to daylight saving time 夏令時|夏令时[xià lìng shí])
the Bering Strait (between Siberia and Alaska)
season
to boss people around (idiom)
decree
an order
decree
to transmit an order
to allow (sth to happen)
commanding officer
spring
to ask sb to leave