(yuán liàng) - forgive, excuse, pardon in Mandarin
yuánliàngTraditional: 原諒
HSK 4
#890 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
forgive, excuse, pardon
Word origin
A compound of 原 (yuán, 'origin, to excuse') and 谅 (liàng, 'to forgive, understand'), meaning 'to forgive'. 谅 is a phono-semantic compound of 讠(speech radical) with 京 (jīng) as the phonetic.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 原 (yuán, 'to excuse') + 谅 (liàng, 'to forgive'; 讠speech + 京 jīng phonetic)
Stroke order
原
谅
Examples
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Please forgive me.
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She forgave his mistake.
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I cannot forgive him.
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Please forgive me for being late.
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He will not forgive this kind of betrayal.
原谅 (yuán liàng) means forgive, excuse, pardon. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.
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