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令

JLPT N2 SL4 5 strokes Frequency: #804

Meanings

Orders, Ancient Laws, Command, Decree

Radicals

人

Decomposition

⿱人？

Etymology

Ideographic: A person kneeling before a master 人

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 5

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

2 diagonal right-to-left

3 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

4 corner bottom-to-top

5 dot bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

レイ rei

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

No common kun'yomi readings

Words Using This Kanji

240 words total

Other (20 words)

物価統制令ぶっかとうせいれい

Prices Control Ordinance

大陸封鎖令たいりくふうされい

Berlin Decree (1806)

訓令式くんれいしき

kunrei-shiki romanization (government-authorized system of romanizing Japanese)

伝令兵でんれいへい

runner (soldier responsible for delivering messages)

令和臨調れいわりんちょう

Reiwa Rincho (national council on structural reforms)

賠償命令ばいしょうめいれい

court order for compensation

命令型プログラミングめいれいがたプログラミング

imperative programming

命令型めいれいがた

imperative

命令型言語めいれいがたげんご

imperative language

排除措置命令はいじょそちめいれい

cease and desist order (issued under the Anti-monopoly Act)

社長令嬢しゃちょうれいじょう

company president's daughter

逮捕令たいほれい

order for arrest

厳戒令げんかいれい

martial law

通信指令室つうしんしれいしつ

communication command center (for emergency calls)

令義解りょうのぎげ

Commentary on the Ryō (833 CE)

飛鳥浄御原令あすかきよみはらりょう

Asuka Kiyomihara Code (689 A.D.)

Ōmi Code (668 A.D.)

violation of law

bad decree

authority

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