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 meet with many difficulties in one's life (idiom)
fate; destiny
proposition (logic, math.); to assign an essay topic
propositional logic
propositional logic
to follow obediently
to follow obediently
to lose one's life
to love wine as one's life (idiom); fond of the bottle
April 12, 1927 anti-communist coup
1927 April 12 coup against Chinese Communists
National Revolutionary Army
National Revolutionary Army
life span; life expectancy; lifetime (of a machine)
not to have long to live (often fig.)
not to have long to live (often fig.)
blessed with good fortune; lucky
Si Wenming, personal name of Yu the Great dà yǔ
orders weightier than life
orders weightier than life
amphetamine (medical) (loanword)
to murder; to kill sb
predestination; karma