令郎

lìngláng
noun #31,846

Meanings

  1. 1 your son (honorific)
  2. 2 your esteemed son

Examples

HSK 4
Lìngláng jīnnián gāokǎo chéngjì zěnmeyàng?
How did your son do on this year's college entrance exam?
HSK 5
Tīngshuō lìngláng bèi Qīnghuá Dàxué lùqǔ le, gōngxǐ!
I heard your son was admitted to Tsinghua - congratulations!

Tips

register
+ family-relation = honorific for the listener's family member. Pair set: 令郎 (your son), 令爱/令嫒 (your daughter), 令尊 (your father), 令堂 (your mother), 令兄 (your elder brother). All are formal/written, mostly used in polite letters or by older speakers. The matching humble term for one's own son is 犬子 (quǎnzǐ, "my pup").
memory
here means "esteemed; honorable" (not "to order"). Think "your honored (young gentleman)" = "your son."

Stroke Order

lìng
láng