令

HSK 5#776 by frequencyradical 人

lìng["v","g"]

to order; to command; an order; to cause; to make sth happen; warrant; writ; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem

líng

used in 脊令[ji2 ling2]; used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])

lǐng

classifier for a ream of paper

Examples

它令您快乐吗？

Does it please you?

那真令人鼓舞。

That's encouraging.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.