Meaning
to ask; to let; permit; have (someone do something); to yield; to allow
Chinese: 允许、让给或请求。
Hear the Four Tones
The same syllable “rang” becomes a different word in each tone. 让 is the 4th tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.
Stroke Order
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Common Words
- 转让zhuǎn ràngto transfer (ownership, rights etc)
- 让步ràng bùto concede; to give in; to yield; a concession
- 让座ràng zuòto give up one's seat for sb
- 退让tuì ràngto move aside; to get out of the way; to back down; to concede
- 出让chū ràngto transfer (one's property or rights to sb else)
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Example Sentence
请让我帮你吧。Qǐng ràng wǒ bāng nǐ ba.Please let me help you.
请Qǐngto ask让ràngto let我wǒI帮bāngto help你nǐyou吧bato puff (on a pipe etc)。
Go deeper
Where this character comes from
The speech radical 讠 plus 上 (sound): to defer — ‘to yield, give way; to let, allow; to invite (让座); by (passive); to make/cause’ (让步, 谦让). Simplified from 讓.
A way to remember it
‘To yield / let / make’: 让座 (offer a seat), 让我看 (let me see).