The Chinese Radical: 令


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Meaning
order, command    令

Explanation Based on "bell 铃 líng", this radical 令 can also be understood as a picture of a bell: (The sound of) the bell with the bell mallet マ gives now 今 the command (e.g. to come)

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
cold
lěng
Left: ice 冫, right: order/command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩 was ordered.)
Ice is ordered to be cold.  
HSK 2
zero, nought, remnant, remainder
líng
Top: rain 雨, below: order/command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered)
The chances that the rain might obey an order are: zero.  
HSK 3
neighbor, adjacent, close to
lín
Left: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered), right: village⻏
The order is that everything in the village is neighbored.  
HSK 4
age, years of life
líng
Left: tooth 齿/齒 (Below the nose 止 an open mouth 凵 with teeth 人), right: order 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered)
(From the teeth of horses you can read the age:) The teeth got the order to show the: age.  
HSK 4
to pity, to sympathize
lián
Left: feelings 忄, right: command/order 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered)
Some feelings come automatically, as if on command: The pity.  
HSK 4
life, fate, order or command
mìng
Left: mouth 口, top/right: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered)
The mouth orders to live.  
HSK 5
neck, collar, to lead, to receive
lǐng
Left: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered), right: page,sheet developed of a head (页/頁 = head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)
It follows the orders of the head: The neck.  
HSK 5
to order, to command, warrant
lìng
Top: lid , below: bent person 卩
A lid on the bent person: That's the order.  
HSK 5
(small) bell
líng
Left: metal 钅/金, right: order/command 令 (bell's body , bell's bolt マ)
Metal chiming on command is a bell.  
HSK 6
clever
líng
Left: person 亻, right: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered)
The person, giving commands should be clever.  
no HSK
mountain range, mountain ridge
lǐng
Left: mountain 山, right: command, order 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered!)
Mountains, which are arranged as if on command, result in: a mountain range.  
no HSK
sound of tinkling (ting-a-ling) of gem-pendants
líng
Left: King, jade 王, right: order, command 令 (here: image of a bell - cf. metal bell 铃 - (令 = bell's body , bell's bolt マ)
The jade bell has tinkling sound.  
no HSK
to hold, lift, to carry in one's hand, to take
līn, līng
Left: hand 扌, right: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered)
When the hand is ordered, it: holds.  
no HSK
tail feathers, plume
líng
Left: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered), right: wings 羽
The commands (about the direction) give these wings: the tail feathers.  
no HSK
apprehend, hear, listen
líng
Left: ear 耳, right: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered) - (cf. bell 铃)
The ear is ordered to: apprehend / hear.  
no HSK
antelope
líng
Left: sheep 羊, right: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered)
The 'sheep' that (is following the herd/flock) as if on command is: the antelope.  

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