令
to order / to command / an order / warrant / writ / to cause / to make sth happen / virtuous / honorific title / season / government position (old) / type of short song or poem
令
=
今
+
㇏
:
Li Qingzhao has been sent by the emperor to collect rent from the English, but they are nowhere to be found. Finally, Li Qingzhao arrived at the engine's bathroom, ready to show her 令牌, raise the finger and show to the date of payday on the calendar—if there were anyone in the engine's bathroom.
令 character breakdown
now / the present time / current / contemporary / this (day, year etc)
Characters with 令 as component
zero / nought / zero sign / fractional / fragmentary / odd (of numbers) / (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one) / fraction / (in mathematics) remainder (after division) / extra / to wither and fall / to wither
零
=
令
+
雨
:
Just inside the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) it is raining (雨) heavily. Li Qingzhao (li) wants to flee the rain and to enter engine, but she has no pocket money (零钱) anymore. Instead, she shows her very special name tag (令) in the hope of being let in, but unfortunately it is not recognized.
neck / collar / to lead / to receive / classifier for clothes, mats, screens etc
领
=
令
+
页
:
Li Qingzhao wants to explore the catacombs below engine, which can only be accessed from inside engine. Because it is so dangerous down there she has to hand in a piece of paper with her name and gets back a name-tag which she has to clip to her dog collar so that she can be identified should something go wrong.
neighbor / adjacent / close to
邻
=
令
+
阝
:
Li Qingzhao (li) just entered the encampment ((e)n2) and sees that her new neighbour (邻) is the Imperator (阝). The Imperator tells her that since he is the imperator, she will have to listen to him how to tend her garden. After listening for a while Li Qingzhao pulls out her name tag (令) and shows the imperator that she is a representative of the emperor, so that the imperator has no power over her.
variant of 鄰|邻[lin2]
邻
=
令
+
阝
:
Li Qingzhao (li) just entered the encampment ((e)n2) and sees that her new neighbour (邻) is the Imperator (阝). The Imperator tells her that since he is the imperator, she will have to listen to him how to tend her garden. After listening for a while Li Qingzhao pulls out her name tag (令) and shows the imperator that she is a representative of the emperor, so that the imperator has no power over her.
(small) bell / CL:隻|只[zhi1]
铃
=
令
+
钅
:
Li Qingzhao (li) is living next to engine, and her neighbors installed some very annoying little bells (铃) next to their entrance ((e)ng2). As a consequence she got an official decree by the emperor and a Ling Pai (令) that allows her to have them remove the bells, but as she visits the engine home no-one is there. Short-tempered she just uses her golden harpoon (钅) to take off the little annoying bells (铃).
to pity
怜
=
令
+
忄
:
Li Qingzhao (li) got a job as an official working in the anthill's kitchen (an2). She has to slay anyone wearing an imperial name tag (令) with a flail (忄), because the name tag marks them as sentenced to death. Qingzhao likes her new job because she gets to work in a bar, but still sometimes she pities (怜) her victims.
Words with 令
to make one's hair stand up in anger (idiom); to raise people's hackles
lit. one general, one order (idiom) / fig. every boss has their own rules / everyone has their own way of doing things
to ask sb to leave / to show sb the door / to give a tenant notice to leave