命

See also 令

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

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

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

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

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Japanese

Kanji

命 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

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

Compounds

革命

運命 (unmei)

Noun

命 (hiragana いのち, romaji inochi)

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

Synonyms

• 生 (せい, sei)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

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

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

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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Vietnamese

Han character

命 (mệnh, mạng, mình, mạnh, mịnh)