mìng

life; fate; order or command

HSK 4 #258

Character data

HSK 4
Frequency 258th character
Radical ⼝ (30.5)
Strokes 8
Index # 1168

Definitions

命 mìng
  1. 1. life
  2. 2. fate
  3. 3. order or command
  4. 4. to assign a name, title etc

Stroke order

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Words containing 命

Word Meaning
to follow orders; to act under orders; to receive orders
fortune-telling; to tell fortune
vitamin (loanword)
vitality
ordained or appointed to a post; to benefit from counsel
to get killed; to meet violent death
to think too much of oneself; self-important; arrogant
(fig.) fatal weakness; mortal wound; Achilles' heel
to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
to be resigned to sth
destiny; fate; Mandate of Heaven
to flee; to go into exile (from prison)
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster
rely on each other to live
resulting in sb's death; fatal
revolutionary
to pay with one's life
desperately; death; doom
to die young; short-lived
runaway (idiom); desperate criminal; fugitive
proposition (logic, math.); to assign an essay topic
human life is beyond value (idiom)
to risk one's life
to consider oneself to be (sth positive)