# 令 — Orders

Frequency rank 348 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 施 (Carry Out), less common than 又 (Again).

- On’yomi: れい
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 人 Person (Kangxi 9)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

The character for orders (令) looks like a person under a roof with authority radiating downward — a figure standing at a podium issuing commands.

In words:

- 命令 めいれい — order,command,decree,directive,(software) instruction
- 指令 しれい — orders;instructions;directive
- 仮令 たとえ — example;even if;if;though;although

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