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

• 无生命(無生命) inert; lifeless
• 天帝命 the Emperor's command
• 直言命题(直言命題) categorical proposition (logic)
• 命名日 name day (tradition of celebrating a given name on a certain day of the year)
• 命运(命運) fate; destiny
• 借命 to live out a pointless existence
• 临危受命(臨危受命) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis
• 生命体征(生命體徵) vital signs
• 五十而知天命 at fifty, I understood the mandate of heaven
• 宿命 predestination; destiny
• 生命延续(生命延續) life extension
• 绝命(絕命) to commit suicide; to have one's life cut short
• 人命 human life ; human life span
• 非致命 not fatal; not life-threatening (medical condition)
• 自命 to consider oneself to be (sth positive)
• 矫命(矯命) to invent orders from the imperial court
• 天命真主 the mandate of heaven is the true ruler
• 玩儿命(玩兒命) to gamble with life; to take reckless risks
• 出人命 fatal
• 克他命 ketamine
• 命运论(命運論) fatalism
• 送命 to lose one's life; to get killed
• 命与之相连(命與之相連) their lives are intervowen
• 寄命 to trust with one's life
• 命途多舛 to meet with many difficulties in one's life
• 养正命(養正命) took care of his physical well-being
• 效命 to do one's utmost in battle despite limitations of one's own body
• 受命 to receive orders [from a ruler] ; to receive a mandate [from Heaven] ; to receive counsel; to receive training ; ordained or appointed to a post
• 碍难从命(礙難從命) difficult to obey orders; much to my embarrassment, I am unable to comply
• 革命运动(革命運動) revolutionary movement
• 批命 to tell somebody's fortune
• 命名 to name
• 一命呜呼(一命嗚呼) to die; to breathe one's last breath
• 受命于天 to become Emperor by the grace of Heaven
• 威尊命贱(威尊命賤) orders weightier than life
• 一钱如命(一錢如命) stingy; penny-pinching
• 生命 life ; living ; vivid; lively
• 新生命 a new life
• 自命不凡 to think too much of oneself
• 死命 doom; death; desperately
• 命名作业(命名作業) naming task
• 不听命(不聽命) to disobey
• 毙命(斃命) to meet violent death; to get killed
• 授命 to give orders
• 亡命 to flee; to go into exile (from prison)
• 性命 life [of a person] ; life [concept]

Also contained in

姒文命 、 蔡仲之命 、 八宝山革命公墓 、 中央革命根据地 、 法国大革命

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: 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17　志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 63
• 僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 62
• 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: 14
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 申命 (申命) 申命羲叔 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 堯典 Yu Shu - Canon of Yao — count: 3