Memory phrase for the character: 拎

拎

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Meaning

to hold, lift, to carry in one's hand, to take

Pronunciation

līn, līng

Explanation

Left: hand 扌, right: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered)

Mnemonic


 
When the hand is ordered, it: holds.

Radicals

扌 handSimplification of this hand 手
令 order, commandBased on "bell 铃 líng", this radical 令 can also be understood as a picture of a bell: (The sound of) the bell with the bell mallet マ gives now 今 the command (e.g. to come)




 Vocabulary

拎起 līn qǐ  to pick up (from the ground with one's hands)
拎包 līn bāo  handbag or shopping bag (topolect)
 


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