令 lìng to order / to command / an order / warrant / writ / to cause / to make sth happen / virtuous / honorific title / season / government position (old) / type of short song or poem syn 令 líng used in 脊令[ji2 ling2] / used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4]) syn 令 lǐng classifier for a ream of paper syn 蓝色 藍色 lán sè blue (color) 领 領 lǐng neck / collar / to lead / to receive / classifier for clothes, mats, screens etc syn 机灵 機靈 jī ling clever / quick-witted syn 蓝天 藍天 lán tiān blue sky syn 千载难逢 千載難逢 qiān zǎi nán féng extremely rare (idiom) / once in a blue moon syn 碧眼 bì yǎn blue eyes 蓝领 藍領 lán lǐng blue-collar / blue-collar worker 蔚蓝 蔚藍 wèi lán azure / sky-blue syn 遍体鳞伤 遍體鱗傷 biàn tǐ lín shāng covered all over with cuts and bruises / beaten black and blue / be a mass of bruises syn 深蓝 深藍 shēn lán dark blue syn 五彩 wǔ cǎi five (main) colors (white, black, red, yellow, and blue) / multicolored syn 青色 qīng sè cyan / blue-green syn 翠绿 翠綠 cuì lǜ greenish-blue / emerald green syn 晴天霹雳 晴天霹靂 qíng tiān pī lì lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom) / fig. a bolt from the blue syn 青天 qīng tiān clear sky / blue sky / upright and honorable (official) syn 青筋 qīng jīn veins / blue veins syn 蓝鲸 藍鯨 lán jīng blue whale 碧蓝 碧藍 bì lán dark blue syn 苍穹 蒼穹 cāng qióng the blue dome of heaven syn 沧海桑田 滄海桑田 cāng hǎi sāng tián lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom) / fig. the transformations of the world syn 天蓝 天藍 tiān lán sky blue syn 青花 qīng huā blue and white (porcelain) 青花瓷 qīng huā cí blue and white porcelain 蓝藻 藍藻 lán zǎo cyanobacterium (blue-green alga) 碧空 bì kōng the blue sky syn 蓝筹股 藍籌股 lán chóu gǔ blue chip stock 淡蓝色 淡藍色 dàn lán sè light blue 苍龙 蒼龍 cāng lóng Blue Dragon, other name of the Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙 (the seven mansions of the east sky) syn 茯苓 fú líng Wolfiporia extensa (a wood-decay fungus) / fu ling / tuckahoe 绩优股 績優股 jì yōu gǔ gilt-edged stock / blue chip stock 青出于蓝 青出於藍 qīng chū yú lán lit. green is born of blue, but beats blue (idiom) / fig. the student becomes superior to the master / same as couplet 青出於藍,而勝於藍|青出于蓝,而胜于蓝 syn 宋美龄 宋美齡 sòng měi líng Soong Mei-ling (1898-2003), Chiang Kai-shek's second wife 蓝龙 藍龍 lán lóng blue 蓝月亮 藍月亮 lán yuè liang Blue Moon, a hypothetical planet 石青 shí qīng azurite / copper azurite 2CuCO3-Cu(OH)2 / azure blue 丁玲 dīng líng Ding Ling (1904-1986), female novelist, author of novel The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River 太陽照在桑乾河上|太阳照在桑干河上, attacked during the 1950s as anti-Party 宝蓝 寶藍 bǎo lán sapphire blue syn 李陵 lǐ líng Li Ling (-74 BC), Han dynasty general whose defeat by the Xiongnu 匈奴 in 104 BC led to a major scandal 藏青色 zàng qīng sè navy blue 蔺相如 藺相如 lìn xiāng rú Ling Xiangru (dates unknown, 3rd century BC), famous statesman of Zhao 趙國|赵国 蓝色基因 藍色基因 lán sè jī yīn Blue 另 lìng other / another / separate / separately syn 蓝 藍 lán blue / indigo plant syn 灵 靈 líng quick / alert / efficacious / effective / to come true / spirit / departed soul / coffin syn 零 líng zero / nought / zero sign / fractional / fragmentary / odd (of numbers) / (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one) / fraction / (in mathematics) remainder (after division) / extra / to wither and fall / to wither syn 青 qīng green / blue / black / youth / young (of people) syn 铃 鈴 líng (small) bell / CL:隻|只[zhi1] syn 碧 bì green jade / bluish green / blue / jade syn 龄 齡 líng age / length of experience, membership etc syn 凌 líng to approach / to rise high / thick ice / to insult or maltreat syn 玲 líng (onom.) ting-a-ling (in compounds such as 玎玲 or 玲瓏|玲珑) / tinkling of gem-pendants 伶 líng (old) actor / actress / (meaningless bound form) syn 苍 蒼 cāng dark blue / deep green / ash-gray syn 岭 嶺 lǐng mountain range / mountain ridge syn 聆 líng (literary) to hear / to listen syn 陵 líng mound / tomb / hill / mountain syn 绫 綾 líng damask / thin silk 青瓦台 青瓦臺 qīng wǎ tái the Blue House (or Cheong Wa Dae), formerly the residence of the president of South Korea in Seoul (1948-2022), now a public park 羚 líng antelope syn 海军蓝 海軍藍 hǎi jūn lán navy blue syn 沧 滄 cāng (bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green / (literary) cold 泠 líng sound of water flowing 菱 蔆 líng variant of 菱[ling2] syn 翎 líng tail feathers / plume syn 囹 líng used in 囹圄[ling2 yu3] 缥 縹 piǎo (literary) light blue / (literary) light blue silk fabric 棂 欞 líng variant of 櫺|棂[ling2] 青天霹雳 青天霹靂 qīng tiān pī lì thunder from a clear sky (idiom) / a bolt from the blue 苓 líng fungus / tuber 蛉 líng sandfly 呤 líng used in 呤呤[ling2 ling2] 鲮 鯪 líng mud carp (Cirrhina molitorella) 瓴 líng concave channels of tiling 酃 líng name of a district in Hunan 黻 fú (archaic) embroidery using black and blue thread 鸰 鴒 líng used in 鶺鴒|鹡鸰[ji2ling2] 青出于蓝而胜于蓝 青出於藍而勝於藍 qīng chū yú lán ér shèng yú lán lit. the color blue is made out of indigo but is more vivid than indigo (idiom) / fig. the student surpasses the master 舲 líng small boat with windows 笭 líng bamboo screen 柃 líng Eurya japonica 睖 líng to stare straight ahead 齢 líng Japanese variant of 齡|龄 丁零当啷 丁零當啷 dīng ling dāng lāng ding-a-ling / (onom.) for sound of bell 醽 líng name of a wine 鴒 líng wagtail / lark 詅 líng to sell 霝 líng drops of rain / to fall in drops 渤澥桑田 bó xiè sāng tián lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], Record of the Grand Historian) / time brings great changes / life's vicissitudes 碧海青天 bì hǎi qīng tiān green sea, blue sky (idiom) / sea and sky merge in one shade / loneliness of faithful widow 金枝玉叶 金枝玉葉 jīn zhī yù yè golden branch, jade leaves (idiom) / fig. blue-blooded nobility, esp. imperial kinsmen or peerless beauty syn 青天白日 qīng tiān bái rì (idiom) in broad daylight / in the middle of the day / KMT emblem, a white sun on a blue background syn 丁零当啷 丁零噹啷 dīng ling - dāng lāng (onom.) sound of a bell: ding-a-ling 回回青 huí huí qīng Mohammedan blue (a cobalt blue pigment imported from Persia, used as an underglaze on Chinese porcelain during the Ming dynasty) 帝国蓝十字和蓝盾首选提供者组织 Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Preferred Provider Organization 蓝拟深海鳕 lán nǐ shēn hǎi xuě blue antimore / blue hake 友军误会射击 友軍誤會射擊 friendly fire / blue-on-blue engagement 