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' (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 (Guoyu '命' v 1)
3. 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)
4. mìng noun an order
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Administration
   Notes: (Guoyu '命' n 3; 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)
6. mìng noun livelihood
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   
7. mìng verb to think
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 以为 (Guoyu '命' v 3)

Contained in

• 资产阶级革命(資產階級革命) the bourgeois revolution
• 生命 life ; living ; vivid; lively
• 活命 life ; to survive; to save a life; to scrape a living
• 冒生命危险(冒生命危險) to risk one's life
• 遵命 to follow your orders; to do as you bid
• 他牺牲了生命(他犧牲了生命) he sacrificed his life
• 家贫命苦(家貧命苦) a poor family and a life of bad luck
• 一命呜呼(一命嗚呼) to die; to breathe one's last breath
• 知命安身 to know one's fate and submit to it
• 危及生命 life endangering
• 命危 in a critical condition
• 寿命(壽命) life span; life expectancy
• 命赴黄泉(命赴黃泉) to visit the Yellow Springs; to die
• 维他命(維他命) a vitamin
• 同命 same fate
• 革命先烈 martyr to the revolution
• 亡命之徒 runaway; desperate criminal; fugitive
• 谋财害命(謀財害命) to plot and kill for property
• 临危授命(臨危授命) to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
• 好命 lucky; blessed with good fortune
• 薄命 to be born under an unlucky star; to be born unlucky
• 不听命(不聽命) to disobey
• 司命 Overseer of Destiny
• 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
• 奔命 to rush about on errands; to be kept on the run ; to pass on an urgent message ; to run quickly
• 寄命 to trust with one's life
• 未命名 untitled; unnamed; no name; nameless; unknown name
• 性命攸关(性命攸關) vitally important; a matter of life and death
• 偿命(償命) to repay with one's life
• 威尊命贱(威尊命賤) orders weightier than life
• 命根 the effort to preserve life ; main root of a plant
• 工业革命(工業革命) Industrial Revolution
• 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).
• 违大命(違大命) to violate the Mandate of Heaven
• 命苦 to be born under an ill star
• 半条命(半條命) half a life; only half alive; barely alive; (scared, beaten etc) half to death
• 催命 to press somebody to death; fig. to pressurize somebody continually
• 用命 to follow orders; to abide by; to obey
• 生命多样性(生命多樣性) biodiversity
• 时乖命蹇(時乖命蹇) bad times, adverse fate
• 任命状(任命狀) certificate of appointment (to government office)
• 命令 an order; a command ; to order; to command
• 生命延续(生命延續) life extension
• 生死有命 life and death are ruled by fate
• 数字命理学(數字命理學) numerology

Also contained in

微子之命 、 汤武革命 、 正命论 、 内命妇 、 命中 、 净命

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: 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
• 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
• 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
• 命羲 (命羲) 乃命羲和 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 堯典 Yu Shu - Canon of Yao — 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
• 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