令人

Chinese

		make or cause to be; order; command make or cause to be; order; command; decree; honourable	man; person; people
trad. (令人)		令	人
simp. ^#(令人)		令	人

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lìngrén

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˋ ㄖㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁶ jan⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lin-ngìn
Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): lêng⁶ nang⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶lin-zen₆

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lìngrén
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˋ ㄖㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lìngrén
  - Wade–Giles: ling⁴-jên²
  - Yale: lìng-rén
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linqren
  - Palladius: линжэнь (linžɛnʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /liŋ⁵¹ ʐən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ling⁶ jan⁴
  - Yale: lihng yàhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ling⁶ jan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ling⁶ yen⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ²² jɐn²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lin-ngìn
  - Hakka Romanization System: lin ngin^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: lin⁴ ngin²
  - Sinological IPA: /lin⁵⁵ ŋin¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lêng⁶ nang⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lĕng nâng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /leŋ³⁵⁻¹¹ naŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶lin-zen₆
  - MiniDict: lin^去 zen^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³lin-zen₃
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lin²² zən⁴⁴/

Noun

令人

good person; kindhearted person
bailiff of feudal yamen
(historical) title given to a noblewoman (命婦／命妇)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (令人):

→ Japanese: 令人(れいじん) (reijin)
→ Korean: 령인(令人) (ryeong'in), 영인(令人) (yeong'in)

Verb

令人

to make one; to cause people (put before a noun or adjective to create a description); to set people (to do something)
令人印象深刻 ― lìngrén yìnxiàng shēnkè ― impressive (literally, “to make one's impression deep”)

令人討厭／令人讨厌 ― lìngrén tǎoyàn ― irritating (literally, “to make one annoyed”)

令人厭煩／令人厌烦 ― lìngrén yànfán ― bore one to tears (literally, “to make one bored”)

令人噴飯／令人喷饭 ― lìngrén pēnfàn ― side-splittingly funny (literally, “to make one spray out food”)

一部令人暖心的電影 [MSC, trad.]
一部令人暖心的电影 [MSC, simp.]
yībù lìngrén nuǎnxīn de diànyǐng [Pinyin]
a heart-warming movie
- “令人”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2026.
  令人發笑歡樂的事物。 [MSC, trad.]
  令人发笑欢乐的事物。 [MSC, simp.]
  Lìngrén fāxiào huānyuè de shìwù. [Pinyin]
  Something joyous that makes one laugh.
to send someone

Synonyms

(to make one): 發人／发人 (fārén), 使人 (shǐrén)

Derived terms

令人不齒 / 令人不齿
令人切齒 / 令人切齿
令人咋舌 (lìngrénzéshé)
令人噴飯 / 令人喷饭
令人心寒
令人意外
令人扼腕
令人捧腹
令人注目
令人激賞 / 令人激赏
令人矚目 / 令人瞩目
令人神往
令人絕倒 / 令人绝倒
令人髮指 / 令人发指 (lìngrénfàzhǐ)
令人齒冷 / 令人齿冷