让 ràng — to yield; to give way; to modestly decline
让
Level 1 · Common HSK 2 #317
Traditional:
讓
ràng rang4
Basic definition
Detailed explanation
verb
- (形声。从言，襄( xiāng)声。本义:责备)
- blame e.g 让书 · 让勖 · 让诮
- give away;give ground;modestly decline e.g 寸步不让 让梨觅枣 · 见困难就上，见荣誉就让 · 各不相让 · 让棋 · 让衢 · 让再让三 · 让客 · 让德
- elect
- let sb.have sth.at a fair price;make over e.g 让价 让与 · 让禄 · 让国 · 让名 · 让利销售
- invite;usher e.g 把他让进门来 · 把客人让进里屋
- let;allow;permit e.g 公共场所不让吸烟 · 让他走了
- decline;refuse e.g 让职 · 让爵
- ask e.g 是他让我来的 · 她妈妈让她每天练钢琴八个小时
- dodge e.g 幸亏我让得快，要不早给那辆车撞倒了 · 让威 · 让开 · 让辟
- entertain;treat;offer e.g 让酒 · 让烟 · 让坐
- 通“攘”
- steal
- disturb
preposition
- by e.g 他让自行车撞了 · 庄稼让大水冲走了
noun
- put up one's hands to balance
Related words
- 转让 to transfer; to assign; transfer
- 出让 to transfer; to sell out
- 让步 to concede; to give in; concession
- 退让 to move aside
- 让利 to give a discount; to make a concession
- 让座 to give up one's seat; to offer a seat
- 让位 to yield one's seat; to step down
- 谦让 to modestly decline; to be humble
- 让路 to make way (for sth)
- 礼让 to show consideration for (others)
- 避让 to avoid/to yield (in traffic)/to get out of the way
- 割让 to cede territory
- 当仁不让 not to decline when it is one's duty; to rise to the task unhesitatingly
- 推让 to humbly decline; to defer to others out of modesty
- 相让 to defer to each other; to yield in mutual courtesy
- 忍让 to exercise forbearance/patient and accommodating
- 互让 to yield to each other; mutual accommodation
- 让贤 to yield one's post to a worthier person
- 寸步不让 not to yield an inch; to refuse to give ground
- 禅让 to abdicate