司令

Chinese

		company; control	make or cause to be; order; command make or cause to be; order; command; decree; honourable
trad. (司令)		司	令
simp. #(司令)		司	令

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sīlìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄌㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ ling⁶

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sir-lēng / su-lēng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): si¹ lêng⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sīlìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄌㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sihlìng
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-ling⁴
    • Yale: sz̄-lìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sylinq
    • Palladius: сылин (sylin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ liŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ ling⁶
    • Yale: sī lihng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ ling⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ ling⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ lɪŋ²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sir-lēng
    • Tâi-lô: sir-līng
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sɯ³³ liɪŋ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su-lēng
    • Tâi-lô: su-līng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suleng
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /su⁴⁴⁻²² liɪŋ²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /su⁴⁴⁻³³ liɪŋ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: si¹ lêng⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: si lĕng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /si³³⁻²³ leŋ³⁵/

Noun

司令

1. commander; commanding officer; commandant

Derived terms

• 司令員 / 司令员 (sīlìngyuán)
• 司令官 (sīlìngguān)
• 司令部 (sīlìngbù)
• 總司令 / 总司令 (zǒngsīlìng)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
司	令
し Grade: 4	れい Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɕiɾe̞ː]

Noun

司(し)令(れい) • (shirei) 

1. command (e.g. of troops)
2. commander

Verb

司(し)令(れい)する • (shirei suru) transitive suru (stem 司(し)令(れい)し (shirei shi), past 司(し)令(れい)した (shirei shita))

1. to command (e.g. troops)

   摂食(せっしょく)行動(こうどう)を司令(しれい)するニューロン

   sesshoku kōdō o shirei suru nyūron

   neurons that control feeding behavior

Conjugation

Conjugation of "司令する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	司令し	しれいし	shirei shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	司令し	しれいし	shirei shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	司令する	しれいする	shirei suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	司令する	しれいする	shirei suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	司令すれ	しれいすれ	shirei sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	司令せよ¹ 司令しろ²	しれいせよ¹ しれいしろ²	shirei seyo¹ shirei shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	司令される	しれいされる	shirei sareru
Causative	司令させる 司令さす	しれいさせる しれいさす	shirei saseru shirei sasu
Potential	司令できる	しれいできる	shirei dekiru
Volitional	司令しよう	しれいしよう	shirei shiyō
Negative	司令しない	しれいしない	shirei shinai
Negative continuative	司令せず	しれいせず	shirei sezu
Formal	司令します	しれいします	shirei shimasu
Perfective	司令した	しれいした	shirei shita
Conjunctive	司令して	しれいして	shirei shite
Hypothetical conditional	司令すれば	しれいすれば	shirei sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

• “司令”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
司	令

Noun

司令 • (saryeong) (hangeul 사령)

1. hanja form^? of 사령 (“commander”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
司	令

Noun

司令

1. chữ Hán form of tư lệnh (“commander”)