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命
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Definitions
- 1. life
- 2. fate
- 3. order or command
- 4. to assign a name, title etc
Example Sentences
1 shown救 命 ！
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Words Containing 命
to lose one's life
French Revolution (1789)
predestination
fate; destiny
to follow orders
to receive orders
your order (honorific)
to appoint
astrologer (esp. Daoist)
divination; divinatory art
to visit the Yellow Springs
mortal wound
vital signs
to spare sb's life
to demand sb's life
not fatal
to be emperor by the grace of heaven; to have the mandate of heaven
fortune teller
the course of one's life
Mt Babao Revolutionary Cemetery in Haidian district of Beijing
to commit suicide
fortune-teller
martyr of the revolution
to be content with what one is
to have a tough life
system of nomenclature
see 拼命[pīn mìng]
name day (tradition of celebrating a given name on a certain day of the year)
French Revolution (1789-1799)
violent death
brave man, willing to risk his life
to follow obediently
to accept one's situation as dictated by heaven (idiom)
to meet with many difficulties in one's life (idiom)
commandment
see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yī mìng wū hū]
confrontation naming
to accept an order
(Maoism) New Democracy (aka New Democratic Revolution)
National Revolutionary Army
to die
nomenclature
life cycle
life expectancy
vitally important
to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate
ketamine (C13H16ClNO) (slang)
to lose one's life
lit. the body is the revolution's capital
doom
to throw oneself at sb or sth
emergency standby
fate
lifeblood
hard lot
to risk one's life
life (as the characteristic of living beings)
to settle down and pursue one's path in life (idiom)
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])
lucky
inert
half a life
fortune-teller
mutually dependent for life (idiom); to rely upon one another for survival
to disobey
to die young
fortune-telling
propositional logic
decreed by fate (idiom)
disobedient
hit rate
life and death are ruled by fate (idiom)
see 生命體徵|生命体征[shēng mìng tǐ zhēng]
to receive heaven's command (of Daoist immortals etc)
to report on completion of a mission
ketamine (loanword)
Black Lives Matter (social movement)
(medicine) in a critical condition
see 唯命是從|唯命是从[wéi mìng shì cóng]
life
while there is life, the fight continues (idiom); to fight to the last
life
to be at death's door (idiom)
vitamin (loanword)
imperative sentence
to pay with one's life
to save sb's life
to be born under an ill star
to give a name to
the crime of instigating counterrevolutionary propaganda
to press sb to death
to hit (a target)
the will of Heaven
lit. to love money as much as one's own life (idiom)
(astrobiology) circumstellar habitable zone
against orders
proposition (logic, math.)
to save one's life
methamphetamine
(Buddhism) recollection of past lives
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
a revolutionary
(idiom) terribly busy
to lay down one's life
on call
see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yī mìng wū hū]
to tell sb's fortune
see 草菅人命[cǎo jiān rén mìng]
see 阿育吠陀[ā yù fèi tuó]
to think too much of oneself
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
Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
to rush about on errands
homicide case
bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
divination based on the eight characters of one's birth date
to complain about one's fate
to obey an order
Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
to throw one's life in for
categorical proposition (logic)
to die
lifeline
numerology
ordained or appointed to a post
to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women)
see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yī mìng wū hū]
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]
saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations)
counterrevolutionary
to obey an order
to fight with all one has
to consider oneself to be (sth positive)
Mandate of Heaven
to not dare to disobey an order (idiom)
exerting all one's strength
at death's door
democratic revolution
to have disregard for human life (idiom)
vitality
to be predestined
suicide note
natal chart (astrology)
to name sth after a person
(one's) last straw to clutch at
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
fatal
(computing) CamelCase
to be on call
see 命根[mìng gēn]
to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning)
to hit with the first shot (idiom)
command line (computing)
person's lot through life
to flee
against orders
lifeline
fate
to submit to the will of heaven
to cause sb's death
untitled
human life is beyond value (idiom)
to kill sb
stingy; penny-pinching
deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom)
see 生命體徵|生命体征[shēng mìng tǐ zhēng]
to die (idiom)
(of a team) to throw oneself into the battle
to escape
lucky (to have escaped death or serious injury)
prohibition
revolutionary
We wish you long life and riches! (idiom, conventional greeting)
sb who dies prematurely
to love sb (or sth) as one loves life itself
amphetamine (medical) (loanword)
mission
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
biodiversity
see 謀財害命|谋财害命[móu cái hài mìng]
orders weightier than life
executive order
runaway (idiom); desperate criminal
martyr to the revolution
to follow your orders
Si Wenming, personal name of Yu the Great 大禹[dà yǔ]
life sciences
bad times, adverse fate (idiom)
the Cambrian explosion
to give sincere advice (idiom)
one's days are numbered
counterrevolutionary coup of 12th April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek's coup against the communists in Shanghai
to love wine as one's life (idiom); fond of the bottle
to be unlucky
certificate of appointment (to government office)
(idiom) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis
to lose one's life
difficult to obey orders (idiom); much to my embarrassment, I am unable to comply
to meet violent death
lit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黃泉|黄泉[huáng quán] (idiom)
order
to be christened
to await orders
bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
October Revolution
human 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 plot and kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
fortune-teller
categorical proposition (logic)
to die (in an accident etc)
Glorious Revolution (England, 1688)
to give orders
false proposition
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster
fatalism
fatal
to risk one's life
to think of oneself as high and pure (idiom); smug and self-righteous
horoscope
year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支[dì zhī]
Book of Deuteronomy
(computing) to rename
to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
to live out a pointless existence
life span