命 mìng
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mìng
noun
life
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 爱财不爱命 'to love wealth more than life' (Guoyu '命' n 1; Suyu, p. 3; Unihan '命') -
mìng
verb
to order
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 差遣 or 下命令 (Guoyu '命' v 1) -
mìng
noun
destiny / fate / luck
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A Confucian and general Chinese belief (Guoyu '命' n 2; Unihan '命'; Yao 2000, p. 26) -
mìng
noun
an order
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Administration
Notes: (Guoyu '命' n 3; Unihan '命') -
mìng
verb
to name / to assign
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 取定; for example, 命名 'to give a name' (Guoyu '命' v 2) -
mìng
noun
livelihood
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
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mìng
verb
to think
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 以为 (Guoyu '命' v 3)
Contained in
- 受洗命名 to be christened
- 危及生命 life endangering
- 诏命(詔命) imperial proclamation
- 方命 against orders / to disobey / to refuse to accept orders
- 生命线(生命線) lifeline
- 命不久已 at death's door
- 逃命 to escape / to flee / to run for one's life
- 对证命名(對證命名) confrontation naming
- 陨命(隕命) to die / to perish
- 本命年 year of one's birth sign
- 命中注定(命中註定) decreed by fate / destined / fated
- 生命在于运动(生命在於運動) life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations) / Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle).
- 保命 to save one's life / to survive
- 救人一命胜造七级浮屠(救人一命勝造七級浮屠) saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda
- 恭敬不如从命(恭敬不如從命) deference is no substitute for obedience
- 帝命 an imperial decree
- 敢不从命(敢不從命) to not dare to disobey an order
- 生命吠陀 Ayurveda (ancient Indian system and health care philosophy)
- 三军用命(三軍用命) (of a team) to throw oneself into the battle
- 命名系统(命名系統) system of nomenclature
- 好命 lucky / blessed with good fortune
- 命薄 to be unlucky
- 大革命 a great revolution
- 革命家 a revolutionary
- 半条命(半條命) half a life / only half alive / barely alive / (scared, beaten etc) half to death
- 工业革命(工業革命) Industrial Revolution
- 死于非命(死於非命) violent death / to die an unnatural death
- 唯命是从(唯命是從) to follow obediently
- 命在旦夕 to be at death's door
- 戒命 prohibition
- 革命运动(革命運動) revolutionary movement
- 八字命理 divination based on the eight characters of one's birth date
- 抗命 to go against orders / to disobey / to refuse to accept orders
- 暗害人命 to secretly harm someone
- 命与之相连(命與之相連) their lives are intervowen
- 耳提面命 to give sincere advice / to exhort earnestly
- 知命 to know one's destiny
- 命题(命題) to make a proposition / to assign a topic
- 受命于天 to become Emperor by the grace of Heaven
- 冒生命危险(冒生命危險) to risk one's life
Also contained in
汤武革命 、 作命内史 、 正命论 、 共命之鸟 、 文学革命 、 武周革命 、 八宝山革命公墓 、 国民革命军 、 用命天皇 、 身命 、 国民革命
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 120
- 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 85
- 卷四百六十六 列傳第二百二十五 宦者一 竇神寶 王仁睿 王繼恩 李神福弟:神祐 劉承規 閻承翰 秦翰 周懷政 張崇貴 張繼能 衛紹欽 石知顒孫:全彬 鄧守恩 Volume 466 Biographies 225: Eunuchs 1 - Dou Shenbao, Wang Renrui, Wang Jien, Li Shenfu and younger brother: Shen You, Liu Chenggui, Yan Chenghan, Qin Han, Zhou Huaizheng, Zhang Chonggui, Zhang Jineng, Wei Shaoqin, Shi Zhiyong and grandson: Quan Bin, Deng Shouen History of Song 宋史 — count: 72
- 卷三百二十一 列傳第二百〇九 外國二 安南 Volume 321 Biographies 209: Foreign States 2 - Annan History of Ming 明史 — count: 67
- 卷三十五 本紀第三十五: 文宗四 Volume 35 Annals 35: Wenzong 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 64
- 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 63
- 卷二十八 本紀第二十八 高宗五 Volume 28 Annals 28: Gaozong 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 63
- 僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 63
- 卷17 志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 63
- 卷三十 列傳第十八: 盧玄 盧柔 盧觀 盧同 盧誕 Volume 30 Biographies 18: Lu Xuan, Lu Rou, Lu Guan, Lu Tong, Lu Dan History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 62
Collocations
- 王命 (王命) 王命南仲 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鹿鳴之什‧出車 Minor odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Lu Ming - Chu Che — count: 17
- 厥命 (厥命) 無越厥命以自覆 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 太甲上 Shang Shu - Tai Jia I — count: 8
- 命召 (命召) 王命召伯 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧崧高 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Song Gao — count: 5
- 有成命 (有成命) 昊天有成命 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 周頌‧清廟之什‧昊天有成命 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Qing Miao - Hao Tian You Cheng Ming — count: 4
- 申命 (申命) 申命羲叔 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 堯典 Yu Shu - Canon of Yao — count: 3
- 命不易 (命不易) 駿命不易 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧文王之什‧文王 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Wen Wang - Wen Wang — count: 3
- 休命 (休命) 疇敢不祗若王之休命 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 說命上(僞) Shang Shu - Charge to Yue I (forged) — count: 3
- 不恭命 (不恭命) 汝不恭命 — Book of Documents 尚書, 夏書 甘誓 Xia Shu - Speech at Gan — count: 3
- 命羲 (命羲) 乃命羲和 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 堯典 Yu Shu - Canon of Yao — count: 3
- 请命 (請命) 其大夫為之請命乎天子之使 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧唐‧無衣 Lessons from the states - Odes of Tang - Wu Yi — count: 3