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令

Level III of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 348 / 2,608

Orders

On’yomi
れい
Kun’yomi
—
Radical
人 Person (Kangxi 9)

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).

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) instructionN3
指令 しれい orders;instructions;directiveN1
仮令 たとえ example;even if;if;though;althoughN1

令 is rank 348 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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