命
life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #286 U+547D
How 命 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
An order 令 given by mouth 口
How to remember it
fate · Heisig RSH #1105
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Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 命
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无生命 | wú shēng mìng | non-living; inanimate; lifeless |
| 出人命 | chū rén mìng | fatal; resulting in sb's death |
| 生命科学 | shēng mìng kē xué | life sciences |
| 数字命理学 | shù zì mìng lǐ xué | numerology |
| 生命力 | shēng mìng lì | vitality |
| 命理学 | mìng lǐ xué | divination; divinatory art |
| 人命关天 | rén mìng guān tiān | human life is beyond value (idiom) |
| 生死有命 | shēng sǐ yǒu mìng | life and death are ruled by fate (idiom) |
| 自命清高 | zì mìng qīng gāo | to think of oneself as high and pure (idiom); smug and self-righteous; holier-than-thou |
| 生命线 | shēng mìng xiàn | lifeline |
| 人命 | rén mìng | human life; CL:條|条[tiao2] |
| 命大 | mìng dà | lucky (to have escaped death or serious injury) |
| 命中 | mìng zhòng | to hit (a target) |
| 生命 | shēng mìng | life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2]) |
| 命名法 | mìng míng fǎ | nomenclature |
| 天命 | Tiān mìng | Mandate of Heaven; destiny; fate; one's life span |
| 自命 | zì mìng | to consider oneself to be (sth positive) |
| 星命家 | xīng mìng jiā | astrologer (esp. Daoist) |
| 以人名命名 | yǐ rén míng mìng míng | to name sth after a person; named after; eponymous |
| 性命 | xìng mìng | life |