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make or cause to be; order; command make or cause to be; order; command; decree; honourable | mix together; peace; harmony mix together; peace; harmony; and; with; union; cap (a poem); respond in singing; soft; warm | ||
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| trad.(令和) | 令 | 和 | |
| simp.#(令和) | 令 | 和 | |

Orthographic borrowing fromJapanese令和(Reiwa).
令和
| Kanji in this term | |
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| 令 | 和 |
| れい Grade: 4 | わ Grade: 3 |
| kan'on | goon |
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| ㋿ R(abbreviation) |

From theLiterary Chineseforeword byŌtomo no Tabito to poems 815-846 in the fifth book of theMan'yōshū (c. 759CE). Relevant part of the foreword:
TheMan'yōshū passage alludes in turn to arhapsody written in 138CE by theHan polymath and statesmanZhang Heng, titled歸田賦 /归田赋(Guītián Fù,“Return to the Field”).[1] Below is the relevant part of the rhapsody with translation by Liu Wu-chi (1990), with slightly different choices of English for the same Chinese words:
With reference to both contexts, a general understanding of this kanji compound is thus along the lines of "goodharmony", though it should be noted that this sense of "good" of the common character令(rei) is otherwise very rare.
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| chữ Hán Nôm in this term | |
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| 令 | 和 |
令和