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下令

xià lìng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

下令 (xià lìng) means "to give an order; to command". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 下令 means

1. to give an order; to issue an order

The characters in 下令

• 下xiàdown; downwards; below
• 令lìngto order; to command; an order

Example sentences

• 国王下令把囚犯释放。
  Guówáng xiàlìng bǎ qiúfàn shìfàng.
  The king ordered that the prisoner should be set free.
• 要是他没有下令做这个调查她本可以瞒天过海好多年。
  Yàoshi tā méiyǒu xiàlìng zuò zhège diàochá tā běn kěyǐ mántiānguòhǎi hǎo duō nián.
  If he didn't order this investigation, she could have flown under the radar for years.

Sounds the same

Read xià lìng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 夏令summer; summer weather

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xià lìng correctly.
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