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让
ràng
让 (ràng) means "to let; to allow". It is an HSK 3.0 level 2 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.
What 让 means
- to yield
- to permit
- to let sb do sth
- to have sb do sth
- to make sb (feel sad etc)
- by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like {被|bèi})
How 让 is used in grammar
让 is a grammar word. Each link goes to its own section: what it does in that pattern, the structure, three example sentences with pinyin, and the mistake to avoid.
- Passive Constructions: 被, 叫, 让 (HSK 3)
- Pivot Sentences: 叫/让/请+someone+V (HSK 3)
- 被-construction (passive) (HSK 4)
- 使/让/叫 pivot-causative sentences (HSK 4)
- Serial Verb & Pivotal Constructions (HSK 5)
The official HSK 3.0 grammar outline lists it at level 4, fixed patterns; level 4, prepositions (引出施事、受事).
Example sentences
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让开。Ràngkāi.Step aside.
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让我来。Let me try.
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他让步了.Tā ràngbù le.He gave in.
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让我看看。Show me.
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让我想想。Let me think for a minute.
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让我试试。Let me try it.
Words starting with 让
- 让步ràng bùto concede; to give in; to yield
- 让开ràng kāito get out of the way; to step aside
- 让座ràng zuòto give up one's seat for sb
- 让路ràng lùto make way (for sth)
- 让位ràng wèito abdicate; to yield
- 让利ràng lìto give a discount; to make a concession
- 让球ràng qiúto concede points (in a game)
- 让渡ràng dùto transfer (property, rights etc); to cede
- 让烟ràng yānto offer a cigarette
- 让胡路区Ràng hú lù QūRanghulu, a district of Daqing City 大庆市
- 让畔ràng pànto be accommodating in negotiating the boundary of one's field…
- 让人羡慕ràng rén xiàn mùenviable; to be admired
- 让坐ràng zuòvariant of 让座
- 让胡路Ràng hú lùsee 让胡路区
Words containing 让
- 转让zhuǎn ràngto transfer (ownership, rights etc)
- 出让chū ràngto transfer (one's property or rights to sb else)
- 谦让qiān ràngto modestly decline
- 退让tuì ràngto move aside; to get out of the way; to back down
- 忍让rěn ràngto exercise forbearance; patient and accommodating
- 礼让lǐ ràngto show consideration for (others); to yield to (another vehicle etc); courtesy
- 当仁不让dāng rén bù ràngto be unwilling to pass on one's responsibilities to others
- 避让bì ràngto avoid; to yield (in traffic); to get out of the way
- 割让gē ràngto cede; cession
- 阿比让Ā bǐ ràngAbidjan (city in Ivory Coast)
- 容让róng ràngto make a concession; to be accommodating
- 承让chéng ràngyou let me win (said politely after winning a game)
- 承让人chéng ràng réngrantee (law)
- 可转让kě zhuǎn ràngtransferable; negotiable
- 产权转让chǎn quán zhuǎn ràngtransfer of property rights; (real estate) title transfer
- 互让hù ràngto yield to one another; mutual accommodation
- 互不相让hù bù xiāng ràngneither giving way to the other
- 红不让hóng bù rànghome run (loanword); a big hit (hugely popular) (Tw)
- 租让zū ràngto lease out; to rent (one's property out to sb else)
- 顶让dǐng ràng(Taiwan) to hand over (a business etc) for an agreed price
- 温良忍让wēn liáng rěn ràngsubmissive; accommodating
- 寸步不让cùn bù bù ràng(idiom) not to yield an inch
- 可转让证券kě zhuǎn ràng zhèng quànnegotiable securities
- 闪让shǎn ràngto jump out of the way
Characters that look like 让
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
Where 让 is taught
In the GraphChinese course it is part of Money and Shopping (HSK 2), HSK 2 Characters · Set 3 (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.
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- Every HSK 2 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 ràng correctly.
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