拎
līn
to lift up; to carry in one's hand; Taiwan pr. [ling1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 手 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 拎
- Common rank
- #4,576
- Unicode
- U+62CE
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 拎
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拎包党 | (coll.) purse snatcher | |
| 拎起 | to pick up (from the ground with one's hands) | |
| 拎包 | handbag or shopping bag (dialect) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 令 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 令 sound part | command, decree, order; magistrate; to allow, to cause | |
| 领 | neck, collar; lead, guide | |
| 冷 | cold, cool; lonely | |
| 零 | zero; fragment, fraction | |
| 岭 | mountain ridge, mountain peak | |
| 邻 | neighbor; neighborhood | |
| 龄 | age; years | |
| 铃 | small bell | |
| 怜 | to pity, to sympathize with | |
| 伶 | clever; lonely, solitary | |
| 玲 | the tinkling of jewelry | |
| 羚 | a species of antelope | |
| 鸰 | lark, wagtail; Motacilla species (various) | |
| 苓 | fungus, tuber; licorice | |
| 蛉 | dragonfly, sandfly; Libellulidae | |
| 呤 | purine | |
| 囹 | prison, enclosure | |
| 翎 | plume, tail feathers | |
| 聆 | to hear, to listen |