讓

Translingual

Han character

讓 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+17, 24 strokes, cangjie input 卜口卜口女 (YRYRV), four-corner 0063₂, composition ⿰訁襄)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1187, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36139
• Dae Jaweon: page 1651, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4032, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8B93

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *njaŋs) : semantic 言 + phonetic 襄 (OC *snaŋ) – to criticize; to reproach.

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

The exopassive of 攘 (OC *njaŋ, *njaŋʔ, *njaŋs, “to remove”) ("to remove" > ("to remove oneself") > "to yield; to concede").

Cognate with 攘 (OC *njaŋ, *njaŋʔ, *njaŋs, “to remove; to steal”), 禳 (OC *njaŋ, “to expel; to sacrifice to expel disasters”), Tibetan གནང (gnang, “to give; to grant”), Burmese နှင်း (hnang:, “to confer; to grant”), Burmese နှင် (hnang, “to drive away; to expel”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Definitions

讓

1. to allow; to let; to permit

   媽媽不讓我去。／妈妈不让我去。  ―  Māma bù ràng wǒ qù.  ―  Mum won't let me go.

   讓我們聯合一起把這項工作做好。 [MSC, trad.]
   让我们联合一起把这项工作做好。 [MSC, simp.]

   Ràng wǒmen liánhé yīqǐ bǎ zhè xiàng gōngzuò zuò hǎo.

   Let's team up to get this task finished.

2. to ask (someone to do something); to get (someone to do something); to have (someone do something)

   醫生讓我打針。／医生让我打针。  ―  Yīshēng ràng wǒ dǎzhēn.  ―  The doctor told me to get a shot.

3. to yield; to concede

   弟弟還小，你就讓著他一點吧。 [MSC, trad.]
   弟弟还小，你就让著他一点吧。 [MSC, simp.]

   Dìdi hái xiǎo, nǐ jiù ràng zhe tā yīdiǎn ba.

   Your brother is still little, why don't you just let him have his way a bit.

4. (driving) to yield; to give way
5. by (passive signifier)

   行李讓雨給淋濕了。 [MSC, trad.]
   行李让雨给淋湿了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Xíngli ràng yǔ gěi lìnshī le.

   The luggage was soaked by rain.

6. (literary) to criticise; to reproach

   • 夷吾訴之，公使讓之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     夷吾诉之，公使让之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Yíwú sù zhī, gōng shǐ ràng zhī.

     Yiwu informed Duke Xian of Jin ; the Duke dispatched messengers to reprimand him (Shi Wei).

Synonyms

• (to allow): (Hokkien, Teochew) 傳／传 (chuán)
• (to yield): 讓行／让行 (ràngxíng)
• (to ask someone to do something):

Compounds

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French Jean.

Definitions

讓

1. A transliteration of the French surname and male given name Jean

   讓-雅克·盧梭／让-雅克·卢梭  ―  ràng - yǎkè lúsuō  ―  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

References

• “Entry #9284”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• Proper Names And Translation Service, Xinhua News Agency, editor (1993), “Jean 让 ”, in 世界人名翻译大辞典 (in Chinese), Beijing: China Translation & Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1385: “男子教名”.

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 譲)

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Readings

• Go-on: にょう (nyō)^{←にやう (nyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: じょう (jō)
• Kun: ゆずる (yuzuru, 讓る)

Korean

Hanja

讓 • (yang) (hangeul 양)

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Vietnamese

Han character

讓: Hán Nôm readings: nhượng, nhường, nhằng, nhàng, lâm

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