命 (mìng): meaning and stroke order
命 (mìng) means life, fate, order or command, to assign a name, title etc.
命
- Simplified
- 命
- Traditional
- 命 (same form)
- Pinyin
- mìng
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Stroke order of 命
命
- mìng life; fate
- 8 strokes
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Meaning of 命
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mìng
- life
- fate
- order or command
- to assign a name, title etc
Radical and structure
- 命
- Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 8 strokes
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 命
- 人命 rén mìng human life; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- 命运 mìng yùn fate; destiny; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 性命 xìng mìng life
- 生命 shēng mìng life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:個|个[ge4],條|条[tiao2])
- 活命 huó mìng life; to survive
- 命令 mìng lìng order; command
- 算命 suàn mìng fortune-telling; to tell fortune
- 救命 jiù mìng to save sb's life; (interj.) Help!
- 拼命 pīn mìng 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
- 人命关天 rén mìng guān tiān human life is beyond value (idiom)
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).