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晾

liàng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 6 Character

晾 (liàng) means "to dry in the air". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 晾 means

1. to dry in the air
2. (fig.) to cold-shoulder

Example sentences

• 你把衣服晾出来！
  Nǐ bǎ yīfu liàng chūlái!
  Hang your clothes out to dry!
• 衣服被晾出去了。
  The clothes are drying outside.
• 这是一个晾衣服的器具。
  Zhè shì yī gè liàng yīfu de qìjù.
  This is an appliance for drying clothes.
• 这天气最适合晾衣服了。
  This is perfect weather for drying clothes.
• 这个器具是用来晾衣服的。
  Zhège qìjù shì yònglái liàng yīfu de.
  This machine is used to dry clothes.
• 汤姆拧干毛巾挂起来晾干。
  Tāngmǔ níng gān máojīn guàqǐlái liànggān.
  Tom wrung out the towel and hung it up to dry.

Words starting with 晾

• 晾晒liàng shàito sun-dry
• 晾干liàng gānto dry (sth) by airing
• 晾衣夹liàng yī jiāclothes pin
• 晾衣架liàng yī jiàclothes drying rack
• 晾衣绳liàng yī shéngclothesline

Characters that look like 晾

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

• 睡shuìto sleep; to lie down
• 猪zhūhog; pig; swine
• 眯míto blind (as with dust); Taiwan pr. mǐ
• 腱jiàntendon; sinew
• 暄xuāngenial and warm
• 眭suīto have a deep or piercing gaze

Sounds the same

Read liàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 辆classifier for vehicles
• 量capacity; quantity; amount
• 亮bright; light; to shine; to flash; loud and clear
• 谅to show understanding; to excuse; to presume
• 靓attractive; good-looking
• 凉to let sth cool down
• 喨used in 嘹喨
• 悢(literary) sad; melancholy
• 踉used in 踉跄
• 倞distant; to seek; old variant of 亮

Where 晾 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · liàng–lìn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read liàng correctly.
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