令 lìng

1. lìng verb to make / to cause to be / to lead
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In this sense 令 is synonymous with 使 or 让. In Literary Chinese 令 can be used as a transitory verb with two arguments in a pivot construction. This has the pattern A 令 B C, where A leads B to do C (Guoyu '令' v 2; Kroll 2015 '令' 7; Pulleyblank 1995, pp. 40-41; Unihan '令').
2. lìng noun to issue a command
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '令' v 1; Kroll 2015 '令' 1)
3. lìng verb rules of behavior / customs
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 辞令 polite speech (Kroll 2015 '令' 6a)
4. lìng noun an order / a command / an edict / a decree / a statute
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 令 is synonymous with 命令 or 法令 (Guoyu '令' n 1; Kroll 2015 '令' 6; Unihan '令').
5. lìng noun a season
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 令 is synonymous with 时令 or 季节 (Guoyu '令' n 2; Kroll 2015 '令' 4).
6. lìng noun respected / good reputation
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '令' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '令' 3a)
7. lìng adjective good
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 令 is synonymous with 美善 (Guoyu '令' adj 1).
8. lìng adjective pretentious
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '令' 3b)
9. lìng noun a transcending state of existence
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '令' 7)
10. lìng noun a commander
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For example, 县令 'county magistrate' (Kroll 2015 '令' 2)
11. lìng noun a commanding quality / an impressive character
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '令' 3)
12. lìng noun lyrics
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 小令 xiaoling - a particular form of verse (Guoyu '令' n 3)
13. lìng proper noun Ling
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (Guoyu '令' n 4)

Contained in

• 行酒令 to play a drinking game
• 拗口令 tongue twister
• 当令(當令) to be in season / seasonal
• 下逐客令 to ask somebody to leave / to show somebody the door / to give a tenant notice to leave
• 令誉(令譽) honorable reputation
• 发号施令(發號施令) to send orders and give commands
• 诏令(詔令) imperial order
• 拿着鸡毛当令箭(拿著雞毛當令箭) to wave a chicken feather as a token of authority
• 迫令 to order / to force
• 饶口令(饒口令) a tongue twister
• 司令 commanding officer / commander
• 纵令(縱令) to indulge / to give free rein / even if ; to indulge / to give free rein / even if
• 词令(詞令) polite speech / diplomatic terms / rhetoric
• 令状(令狀) writ
• 令人钦佩(令人欽佩) admirable
• 军令状(軍令狀) military order
• 令尹 chief minister
• 令箭 arrow banner of command
• 总司令(總司令) commander-in-chief
• 口令 password ; oral command
• 令嬡 (your) daughter
• 秋令 autumn / autumn weather
• 挟天子以令诸侯(挾天子以令諸侯) hold the feudal overlord and you control his vassals
• 强令(強令) to order by force / peremptory
• 三令五申 to order again and again
• 令堂 (honorific) your mother
• 逐客令 the First Emperor's order to expel foreigners / notice to leave
• 令德 merit ; a wise person
• 传令(傳令) to transmit an order
• 令行禁止 if he orders you go, he forbids you stop / to demand exact compliance with instructions
• 戒严令(戒嚴令) martial law
• 空军司令(空軍司令) air commodore / top commander of air force
• 利令智昏 to lose one's head through material greed
• 月令 typical weather in a given season
• 判令 decree / (of a court) to order
• 令郎 your esteemed son (honorific)
• 信令 signaling
• 令人振奋(令人振奮) inspiring / exciting / rousing
• 教令 to drill / to train
• 禁酒令 prohibition / ban on alcohol
• 动员令(動員令) order of mobilization

Also contained in

令牌环 、 丹马令 、 宏指令 、 已生的善法，令它增长 、 掌畜令 、 推恩令 、 骑马令 、 教令轮 、 德令哈 、 令狐德棻

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Truncated for common words

• 卷三十八 志第二十八 州郡四 Volume 38 Treatises 28: Administrative Districts 4 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 319
• 卷三十五 志第二十五 州郡一 Volume 35 Treatises 25: Administrative Districts 1 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 265
• 卷三十六 志第二十六 州郡二 Volume 36 Treatises 26: Administrative Districts 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 236
• 卷三十七 志第二十七 州郡三 Volume 37 Treatises 27: Administrative Districts 3 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 224
• 卷四十四 志第二十四: 職官三 Volume 44 Treatises 24: Government Service 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 187
• 卷八十四　志第三十四: 　選舉四 Volume 84 Treatises 37: Selection of Officials 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 183
• 卷四十二 志第二十二: 職官一 Volume 42 Treatises 22: Government Service 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 169
• 卷七十五上　　　表第十五上　宰相世系五上 Volume 75a Tables 21: Chancellors Genealogy 5a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 157
• 卷七十二上　　　表第十二上　宰相世系二上 Volume 72a Tables 14: Chancellors Genealogy 2a New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 156
• 卷八十三　志第三十三: 　選舉三 Volume 83 Treatises 36: Selection of Officials 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 154

Collocations

• 征令 (徵令) 掌百官府之徵令 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 7
• 令闻 (令聞) 令聞不已 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧文王 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Wen Wang — count: 7
• 戒令 (戒令) 掌其戒令 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《燕義》 The Meaning of the Banquet — count: 6
• 令群 (令群) 則令群吏致事 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 5
• 卢令 (盧令) 盧令 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧齊‧盧令 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qi - Lu Ling — count: 4
• 令诸侯 (令諸侯) 令諸侯三歲而聘 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3
• 令曰 (令曰) 荀偃令曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
• 令终 (令終) 高朗令終 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧生民之什‧既醉 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Sheng Min - Ji Jiu — count: 3
• 令仪 (令儀) 莫不令儀 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧南有嘉魚之什‧湛露 Minor odes of the kingdom - Nan You Jia Yu Zhi Shen - Zhan Lu — count: 3
• 令龟 (令龜) 惠伯令龜 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 3