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允

yǔn

HSK 4 Character

What 允 means

1. just
2. fair
3. to permit
4. to allow

Example sentences

• 我不允许。
  I don't allow it.
• 请允许我去。
  Please allow me to go.
• 您允许我去吗？
  Will you permit me to go there?
• 这里允许拍照吗？
  Are we allowed to take pictures here?
• 这里不允许抽烟。
  Smoking is not permitted here.
• 请允许我为你做。
  Permit me to do that for you.

Words starting with 允

• 允许yǔn xǔto permit; to allow
• 允诺yǔn nuòto promise; to consent (to do sth)
• 允准yǔn zhǔnto approve; to permit; approval
• 允当yǔn dàngproper; suitable
• 允文允武yǔn wén yǔn wǔequally proficient in intellectual and military affairs
• 允宜yǔn yíappropriate; apt

Words containing 允

• 应允yīng yǔnto give one's assent; to consent; Taiwan pr. yìng yǔn
• 公允gōng yǔnequitable; fair
• 答允dā yǔn(literary) to agree; to consent
• 公允价值gōng yǔn jià zhífair value (accounting)
• 祝允明Zhù Yǔn míngZhu Yunming (1460-1526), Ming dynasty calligrapher
• 朱允炆Zhū Yǔn wénZhu Yuanwen, personal name of second Ming Emperor Jianwen 建文

Characters that look like 允

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 北běinorth; (classical) to be defeated
• 史shǐhistory; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China
• 龙lóngChinese dragon; loong; (fig.) emperor; dragon

Sounds the same

Read yǔn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 陨(bound form) to fall from the sky; variant of 殒
• 殒(literary) to perish; to die
• 狁name of a tribe
• 霣rain storm; to fall