Dictionary🇨🇳 Chinese → 🇺🇸 English
讓
ràng
Description
「讓」是一个很常用的动词，可以表示让别人做某事，也可以表示把东西给别人或者不去争。
"讓" is a very common verb that can mean allowing others to do something, giving something to someone, or not competing.
Meanings
讓ràng
to let, to allow, to make someone do
妈妈让我早点回家。
Mom told me to come home early.
讓ràng
to give way, to yield, to make room
请让一下，我要过去。
Please make way, I need to get through.
讓ràng
to hand over or sell to someone
他把车便宜地让给了朋友。
He sold the car cheaply to a friend.
Related words
Notes
- Nuance
as a causative, 让 is softer and more common in speech than 使 or 令.
- Etymology
simplified from 讓; the 讠 radical marks it as a speech-related word.
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