命 mìng

1. mìng noun life
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 爱财不爱命 'to love wealth more than life' (CC-CEDICT '命'; Guoyu '命' n 1; Suyu, p. 3; Unihan '命')
2. mìng verb to order
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 差遣 or 下命令 (CC-CEDICT '命'; Guoyu '命' v 1; Kroll 2015 '命' 1, p. 311)
3. mìng noun destiny; fate; luck
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: A Confucian and general Chinese belief (CC-CEDICT '命'; Guoyu '命' n 2; Kroll 2015 '命' 3a, p. 311; Unihan '命'; Yao 2000, p. 26)
4. mìng noun an order; a command
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '命'; Guoyu '命' n 3; ; Kroll 2015 '命' 1a, p. 311; Unihan '命')
5. 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; Kroll 2015 '命' 2, p. 311)
6. mìng noun livelihood
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   
7. mìng noun advice
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '命' 1b, p. 311)
8. mìng verb to confer a title
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '命' 2a, p. 311)
9. mìng noun lifespan
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '命' 3, p. 311)
10. mìng verb to think
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 以为 (Guoyu '命' v 3)

Contained in

• 爱国如命(愛國如命) to love the nation as one's life
• 爱惜性命(愛惜性命) cling to life
• 短命 a short life; to die early ; to curse someone; damn you!
• 本命年 year of one's birth sign
• 生命不息，战斗不止(生命不息，戰鬥不止) while there is life, the fight continues; to fight to the last
• 命在旦夕 to be at death's door
• 革命社会主义(革命社會主義) revolutionary socialism
• 克他命 ketamine
• 生命延续(生命延續) life extension
• 命名作业(命名作業) naming task
• 命途 the course of one's life; one's fate
• 命理学(命理學) divination; divinatory art
• 方命 against orders; to disobey; to refuse to accept orders
• 帝命 an imperial decree
• 革命斗争(革命鬥爭) revolutionary struggle
• 命运论(命運論) fatalism
• 害命 to kill; to murder
• 寿命(壽命) life span; life expectancy
• 禄命(祿命) person's lot through life
• 拚命 to do one's utmost
• 命名日 name day (tradition of celebrating a given name on a certain day of the year)
• 星命 astrological sign
• 受命以来(受命以來) after I accepted my orders
• 一命呜呼(一命嗚呼) to die; to breathe one's last breath
• 饶命(饒命) to spare somebody's life
• 戒命 prohibition
• 临危授命(臨危授命) to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
• 卖命(賣命) to throw one's life in for; to haplessly give one's life for; to sacrifice oneself torturously working for another or for a group; to pour in one's utmost effort; to shed one's last ounce of strength for
• 借命 to live out a pointless existence
• 生命吠陀 Ayurveda (ancient Indian system and health care philosophy)
• 致命伤(致命傷) mortal wound; fatal weakness; Achilles' heel
• 冒生命危险(冒生命危險) to risk one's life
• 朝命暮改 the morning's orders changed in the evening
• 复命(復命) to report on completion of a mission; debriefing
• 革命性 revolutionary
• 人命危浅(人命危淺) a person with a precarious hold on life
• 平均寿命(平均壽命) life expectancy
• 丢命(丟命) to die
• 命定 to be predestined
• 命题(命題) to make a proposition; to assign a topic
• 玩儿命(玩兒命) to gamble with life; to take reckless risks
• 拼命讨好(拼命討好) to throw oneself at somebody or something; to bend over backwards to help
• 乐天知命(樂天知命) to be content with what one is
• 反革命分子 counter-revolutionaries
• 命相 horoscope
• 索命 to demand somebody's life
• 耳提面命 to give sincere advice ; to exhort earnestly

Also contained in

微子之命 、 命令列 、 舰队司命官 、 国民革命军

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: 118
• 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: 65
• 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
• 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
• 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months The Book of Rites 禮記 — 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
• 僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — 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
• 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: 6
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 天永命 (天永命) 祈天永命 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 召誥 Zhou Shu - Announcement of the Duke of Shao — count: 3
• 申命 (申命) 申命羲叔 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 堯典 Yu Shu - Canon of Yao — 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
• 命羲 (命羲) 乃命羲和 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 堯典 Yu Shu - Canon of Yao — count: 3