令

Meaning

令 centers on authoritative directives: orders, commands, laws, and decrees. The meaning 'good' is a separate, less common sense that does not clearly connect to the directive idea.

• 命令めいれい
  N3

  order; command; decree; directive

• 司令しれい

  command; commander; commandant

• 仮令たとえ
  N2

  even if; no matter (what); if; though; although; supposing; supposing that; -ever

• 令れい

  command; order; dictation

• 指令しれい
  N1

  order; directive; instructions; command

• 法令ほうれい
  N1

  statute; law; act; ordinance; regulation

• 発令はつれい

  official announcement; proclamation; issuance (of an order, ordinance, or warning)

• 令嬢れいじょう

  (your) daughter; young woman

• 政令せいれい

  government ordinance; cabinet order

• 省令しょうれい

  ministerial ordinance

• 令状れいじょう

  warrant; summons; written order

• 辞令じれい

  notice of personnel change (appointment, dismissal, etc.)

• 号令ごうれい

  order (esp. to a number of people); command

• 司令塔しれいとう

  control tower; conning tower

• 伝令でんれい

  delivering an order; dispatch of an order

• 律令りつりょう

  ritsuryō; criminal, administrative and civil codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models

• 政令市せいれいし

  ordinance-designated city

• 召集令状しょうしゅうれいじょう

  draft papers; callup notice

• 徳政令とくせいれい

  debt cancellation order issued by the Emperor or the Shogun (during the Muromachi and Kamakura periods)

• 軍令ぐんれい

  military command

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