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' (CC-CEDICT '命'; 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 (CC-CEDICT '命'; Guoyu '命' v 1; Kroll 2015 '命' 1, p. 311) -
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) -
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') -
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) -
mìng
noun
livelihood
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
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mìng
noun
advice
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '命' 1b, p. 311) -
mìng
verb
to confer a title
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '命' 2a, p. 311) -
mìng
noun
lifespan
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '命' 3, p. 311) -
mìng
verb
to think
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 以为 (Guoyu '命' v 3)
Contained in
- 苦命 bitter fate
- 宿命论(宿命論) fatalism
- 诏命(詔命) imperial proclamation
- 反革命 a counter-revolutionary
- 待命 to be on call; to be on standby
- 违命(違命) disobedient; to violate the Mandate of Heaven (天命 )
- 命运(命運) fate; destiny
- 相依为命(相依為命) to depend on one another for survival
- 五十而知天命 at fifty, I understood the mandate of heaven
- 命中注定(命中註定) decreed by fate; destined; fated
- 寒武纪生命大爆发(寒武紀生命大爆發) the Cambrian explosion
- 算命先生 fortune-teller
- 命中率 hit rate; scoring rate
- 时乖命蹇(時乖命蹇) bad times, adverse fate
- 暗害人命 to secretly harm someone
- 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
- 简命(簡命) to appoint
- 命脉(命脈) lifeline
- 耳提面命 to give sincere advice ; to exhort earnestly
- 相命者 fortune teller
- 人始生有大命 from the start of their lives, people have a greater destiny
- 草菅人命 to have no regard for human life
- 对证命名(對證命名) confrontation naming
- 见危受命(見危受命) follow orders despite seeing danger
- 长命(長命) longevity; a long time
- 听天命(聽天命) obey the mandate of heaven
- 申命记(申命記) Book of Deuteronomy; Fifth Book of Moses
- 命妇(命婦) nobles; titled nobility
- 算命家 fortune-teller
- 听命(聽命) to obey an order; to take orders; to accept a state of affairs
- 拼命 to do one's utmost
- 绝命(絕命) to commit suicide; to have one's life cut short
- 甲基安非他命 methamphetamine
- 身体是革命的本钱(身體是革命的本錢) the body is the revolution's capital; good health is a prerequisite for work (Mao Zedong's saying)
- 救命稻草 (one's) last straw to clutch at; one's last hope
- 乞命 to beg for one's life ; to request orders
- 革命先烈 martyr to the revolution
- 资产阶级革命(資產階級革命) the bourgeois revolution
- 正命 to live an allotted life span
- 临危授命(臨危授命) to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
- 狠命 exerting all one's strength
- 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
- 亡命 to flee; to go into exile (from prison)
- 革命烈士 martyr of the revolution
Also contained in
正命论 、 四一二反革命政变 、 汤武革命 、 十月革命 、 国民革命 、 二次革命 、 命令行
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
- 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months The Book of Rites 禮記 — 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
- 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
- 命羲 (命羲) 乃命羲和 — 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
- 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
- 申命 (申命) 申命羲叔 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 堯典 Yu Shu - Canon of Yao — 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
- 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