命
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life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 口 +5
- Structure
- Upper-right enclosure 右上包
- Traditional
- 命
- Common rank
- #286
- Unicode
- U+547D
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Formation & memory
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Words with 命
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无生命 | non-living; inanimate; lifeless | |
| 出人命 | fatal; resulting in sb's death | |
| 生命科学 | life sciences | |
| 数字命理学 | numerology | |
| 生命力 | vitality | |
| 命理学 | divination; divinatory art | |
| 人命关天 | human life is beyond value (idiom) | |
| 生死有命 | life and death are ruled by fate (idiom) | |
| 自命清高 | to think of oneself as high and pure (idiom); smug and self-righteous; holier-than-thou | |
| 生命线 | lifeline | |
| 人命 | human life; CL:條|条[tiao2] | |
| 命大 | lucky (to have escaped death or serious injury) | |
| 命中 | to hit (a target) | |
| 生命 | life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2]) | |
| 命名法 | nomenclature | |
| 天命 | Mandate of Heaven; destiny; fate; one's life span | |
| 自命 | to consider oneself to be (sth positive) | |
| 星命家 | astrologer (esp. Daoist) | |
| 以人名命名 | to name sth after a person; named after; eponymous | |
| 性命 | life |