受命 shòumìng
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shòumìng
verb
to receive orders [from a ruler]
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '受命' 2; Queen 1999, p. 290) -
shòumìng
verb
to receive a mandate [from Heaven]
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '受命' 1) -
shòumìng
verb
to receive counsel; to receive training
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 承教 (CC-CEDICT '受命'; Guoyu '受命' 3) -
shòumìng
verb
ordained or appointed to a post
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '受命'; Guoyu '受命' 4)
Contained in
- 受命以来(受命以來) after I accepted my orders
- 将受命于君(將受命於君) a general receives his commands from the ruler
- 受命乎天 the mandate is received from Heaven
- 受命于天 to become Emperor by the grace of Heaven
- 临危受命(臨危受命) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis
- 见危受命(見危受命) follow orders despite seeing danger
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷一百五十四 志第一百〇七 輿服六 Volume 154 Treatises 107: Carriages and Clothes 6 History of Song 宋史 — count: 31
- 卷二 魏書二 文帝紀 Volume 2: Book of Wei 2 - Annals of Emperor Wen Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 28
- 卷二十七 志第十七 符瑞上 Volume 27 Treatises 17: Auspicious Signs 1 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 19
- 卷十五 郊義第六十六 郊祭第六十七 四祭第六十八 郊祀第六十九 順命第七十 郊事對第七十一 Scroll 15 Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋繁露 — count: 15
- 卷四十八 Scroll 48 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 12
- 卷二十六 志第六: 禮儀六 Volume 26 Treatises 6: Rites 6 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 12
- 卷二十三 志第三: 禮儀三 Volume 23 Treatises 3: Rites 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 11
- 卷二十一 志第一: 禮儀一 Volume 21 Treatises 1: Rites 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 11
- Scroll 9 Xin Shu 新書 — count: 11
- 卷十六 志第六 禮三 Volume 16 Treatises 6: Rituals 3 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 10
Collocations
- 文王受命 (文王受命) 文王受命作周也 — 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: 12
- 言受命 (言受命) 以言受命 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 3
- 三代受命 (三代受命) 昔三代受命 — Guanzi 管子, 封禪第五十 Chapter 50: Feng Shan — count: 3
- 谨受命 (謹受命) 願以壯少之禮謹受命 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十一 善說 Chapter 11: Virtuous Speech — count: 3
- 盖受命 (蓋受命) 西伯蓋受命之君 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《周本紀》 Annals of Zhou — count: 3
- 进受命 (進受命) 將進受命於君 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 3
- 敬受命 (敬受命) 敬受命 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十 敬慎 Chapter 10: Being Reverent and Catious — count: 3
- 北面受命 (北面受命) 阼階上北面受命于主人 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 鄉飲酒禮 第四 4. Rites of the district symposium — count: 3
- 受命帝王 (受命帝王) 自古受命帝王 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《封禪書》 Religious sacrificial ceremonies — count: 2
- 遂受命 (遂受命) 遂受命 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 聘禮 第八 8. Rites of courtesy calls — count: 2