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(liàng) - forgive, understand in Mandarin

liàng

Traditional: 諒

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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

Stroke order for 谅

Examples

Please forgive me.

He forgave my mistake.

I cannot forgive him.

Please forgive my mistake.

I hope you can pardon me this once.

谅 (liàng) means forgive or understand, almost always bound in 原谅 (yuán liàng).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 谅.

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This word is part of lesson 108.