(liàng) - forgive, understand in Mandarin
liàngTraditional: 諒
Translation
forgive, understand
Word origin
A phono-semantic character pairing the speech radical 讠(yán) with 京 (jīng) as the phonetic, the speech element giving the sense to forgive or to understand another's words.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 讠 (speech radical) + 京 (jīng, phonetic)
Stroke order
谅
Examples
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Please forgive me.
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He forgave my mistake.
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I cannot forgive him.
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Please forgive my mistake.
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I hope you can pardon me this once.
谅 (liàng) means forgive or understand, almost always bound in 原谅 (yuán liàng).
Where this fits
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 谅.
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