让
ràng HSK2

allow

让 (讓) ràng
have verb
to have or ask someone to do something

老师让我去办公室找他。

lǎo​shī ràng wǒ qù bàn​gōng​shì zhǎo tā.

The teacher asked me to see him in his office.

permit verb
to permit or let someone do something

我父母不让我出去玩。

wǒ fù​mǔ bù ràng wǒ chū​qù wán.

My parents won't let me go out.

make verb
to make someone feel a certain way (e.g., happy, sad)

这个好消息让他非常高兴。

zhè gè hǎo xiāo​xi ràng tā fēi​cháng gāo​xìng.

The good news made him very happy.

yield verb
to yield; to give way; to concede

请给老人让座。

qǐng gěi lǎo​rén ràng zuò.

Please give up your seat to the elderly.

by verb
indicates the agent in a passive clause

我的钱包让他偷走了。

wǒ de qián​bāo ràng tā tōu​zǒu le.

He stole my wallet.

Frequency
Character
Written text
339th most common 649.4 per million
Movie subtitles
66th most common 2671.0 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3690.7 per million appears in 100% of films
Written text
1166.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
讓
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+8BA9

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)