Kanji1 / 5
令 kanji
orders, laws, command, decree, good
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
レイ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 令
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —召喚令状summons for directions (legal UK)
- —朝令暮改an unsettled course of action; (orders or laws) being revised often with no guiding principles
- —命令一下handed-down order; issued instruction; word of command
- —召集令状draft papers; callup notice
- —行政命令administrative or executive order
- —社交辞令something said for politeness' sake; diplomatic language; honeyed words; lip service; empty compliment
- —至上命令unconditional command; must-obey order
- —総司令官commander-in-chief; supreme commander
- —総司令部(command) headquarters
- —外交辞令diplomatic turn of phrase; diplomatic language; tactful way of expressing something
- —略式命令summary order
- —司令長官Commander-in-Chief; C-in-C
- —出頭命令summons; subpoena
- —隔離命令isolation order
- —社長命令order from the company president
- —配備命令deployment order
- —新聞辞令appointment or dismissal conjecturally reported in the media (esp. when the conjecture turned out to be wrong); announcement of an appointment that turns out to be mere press speculation
- —命令口調tone of command; authoritative tone; commanding tone
- —法令遵守compliance (with laws and regulations); regulatory compliance
- —機械命令machine instruction