命

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Synonyms 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 5.1.2 References 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 口 + 令 (“‘order’”)

[edit] Han character

命 (radical 30 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人一口中 (OMRL), four-corner 8062₇)

1. life
2. destiny, fate, luck
3. an order, instruction

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

命 (jyutping meng6, ming6, Yale meng6, ming6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

命 (grade 3 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: めい (mei), みょう (myō)
• Kun: いのち (inochi), おおせ (oose), みこと (mikoto)

[edit] Compounds

革命

運命 (unmei)

[edit] Noun

命 (hiragana いのち, romaji inochi)

1. The state that precedes death and follows birth or conception; life

[edit] Synonyms

• 生 (せい, sei)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

命 (hangeul 명, revised myeong, McCune-Reischauer myŏng)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

命 (pinyin mìng (ming4), zǔ (zu3), Wade-Giles ming⁴, tsu³)

[edit] Compounds

• 命案
• 命笔
• 命大
• 命定
• 命根
• 命苦
• 命令
• 命令句
• 命令主义
• 命脉
• 命名
• 命世
• 命数
• 命题
• 命途
• 命相
• 命運, 命运
• 命中

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 183, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3473
• Dae Jaweon: page 402, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 604, character 11
• Unihan data for U+547D

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

命 (mệnh, mạng, mình, mạnh, mịnh)