命
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Definitions
- 1. life
- 2. fate
- 3. order or command
- 4. to assign a name, title etc
Words Containing 命
to appoint
mission
order
to give a name to
fate; destiny
proposition (logic, math.)
life span
life
to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it
to save sb's life
life (as the characteristic of living beings)
lifeline
mutually dependent for life (idiom); to rely upon one another for survival
fatal
to cause sb's death
to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning)
ketamine (C13H16ClNO) (slang)
see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yī mìng wū hū]
see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yī mìng wū hū]
to die (idiom)
see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yī mìng wū hū]
to hit with the first shot (idiom)
stingy; penny-pinching
(of a team) to throw oneself into the battle
to disobey
to die
Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
Second Revolution, campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[yuán shì kǎi] and the Northern Warlords
to flee
runaway (idiom); desperate criminal
human life
human life is beyond value (idiom)
to name sth after a person
certificate of appointment (to government office)
to save one's life
to await orders
to live out a pointless existence
false proposition
to press sb to death
to pay with one's life
Glorious Revolution (England, 1688)
ketamine (loanword)
divination based on the eight characters of one's birth date
Mt Babao Revolutionary Cemetery in Haidian district of Beijing
to risk one's life
fatal
October Revolution
half a life
counterrevolutionary
the crime of instigating counterrevolutionary propaganda
ordained or appointed to a post
to be emperor by the grace of heaven; to have the mandate of heaven
to be christened
at death's door
to hit (a target)
hit rate
decreed by fate (idiom)
imperative sentence
command line (computing)
(medicine) in a critical condition
name day (tradition of celebrating a given name on a certain day of the year)
nomenclature
system of nomenclature
to be at death's door (idiom)
lucky (to have escaped death or serious injury)
to be predestined
lifeblood
see 命根[mìng gēn]
homicide case
lit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黃泉|黄泉[huáng quán] (idiom)
fate
divination; divinatory art
natal chart (astrology)
horoscope
lifeline
to be born under an ill star
to be unlucky
to visit the Yellow Springs
the course of one's life
to have a tough life
to meet with many difficulties in one's life (idiom)
propositional logic
to follow obediently
to lose one's life
to love wine as one's life (idiom); fond of the bottle
counterrevolutionary coup of 12th April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek's coup against the communists in Shanghai
National Revolutionary Army
see 謀財害命|谋财害命[móu cái hài mìng]
one's days are numbered
Mandate of Heaven
to receive orders
to rush about on errands
lucky
Si Wenming, personal name of Yu the Great 大禹[dà yǔ]
orders weightier than life
to settle down and pursue one's path in life (idiom)
amphetamine (medical) (loanword)
to kill sb
predestination
fatalism
(Buddhism) recollection of past lives
the Cambrian explosion
your order (honorific)
confrontation naming
Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
life expectancy
to be on call
to obey an order
to report on completion of a mission
vitally important
categorical proposition (logic)
to complain about one's fate
deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom)
see 唯命是從|唯命是从[wéi mìng shì cóng]
to love sb (or sth) as one loves life itself
lit. to love money as much as one's own life (idiom)
emergency standby
prohibition
to tell sb's fortune
against orders
see 拼命[pīn mìng]
brave man, willing to risk his life
to throw oneself at sb or sth
to lay down one's life
to risk one's life
to give orders
to fight with all one has
saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
(one's) last straw to clutch at
to not dare to disobey an order (idiom)
numerology
to meet violent death
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
(Maoism) New Democracy (aka New Democratic Revolution)
against orders
astrologer (esp. Daoist)
bad times, adverse fate (idiom)
untitled
year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支[dì zhī]
to be content with what one is
if one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing (famous line in \A Dream of Red Mansions\ 紅樓夢|红楼梦[hóng lóu mèng])
doom
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster
to die
democratic revolution
to lose one's life
French Revolution (1789-1799)
French Revolution (1789)
life
the Tang and Wu Revolts: the overthrow (c. 1600 BC) of the Xia Dynasty by the first king, Tang 商湯|商汤[shāng tāng], of the Shang Dynasty, and the overthrow (c. 1046 BC) of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty founder, King Wu 周武王[zhōu wǔ wáng]
inert
exerting all one's strength
while there is life, the fight continues (idiom); to fight to the last
vitality
see 阿育吠陀[ā yù fèi tuó]
life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations)
biodiversity
(astrobiology) circumstellar habitable zone
see 生命體徵|生命体征[shēng mìng tǐ zhēng]
life sciences
see 生命體徵|生命体征[shēng mìng tǐ zhēng]
life cycle
vital signs
life and death are ruled by fate (idiom)
to follow orders
methamphetamine
Book of Deuteronomy
to die (in an accident etc)
(idiom) terribly busy
categorical proposition (logic)
fortune teller
to receive heaven's command (of Daoist immortals etc)
to die young
sb who dies prematurely
difficult to obey orders (idiom); much to my embarrassment, I am unable to comply
person's lot through life
fortune-telling
fortune-teller
fortune-teller
fortune-teller
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
to demand sb's life
to commit suicide
suicide note
vitamin (loanword)
to give sincere advice (idiom)
to obey an order
to accept one's situation as dictated by heaven (idiom)
to submit to the will of heaven
(idiom) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis
to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
to consider oneself to be (sth positive)
to think too much of oneself
to think of oneself as high and pure (idiom); smug and self-righteous
mortal wound
bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
hard lot
see 草菅人命[cǎo jiān rén mìng]
to have disregard for human life (idiom)
to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women)