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Mythic Mandarin

人命 (rén mìng): meaning and stroke order

人命 (rén mìng) means human life, 条.

人命

Simplified
人命
Traditional
人命 (same form)
Pinyin
rén mìng

Stroke order of 人命

人

  • rén person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
  • 2 strokes

Stroke by stroke

命

  • mìng life; fate
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 人命

  1. rén mìng
    • human life
    • CL:條|条[tiao2]

Radicals of the characters

人
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 2 strokes
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.

人命 in our stories

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  • 他在书里反复强调，人命关天，官员判案的时候，哪怕只错一点点，也可能让一个无辜的人冤死。

    tā zài shū lǐ fǎnfù qiángdiào rénmìng guāntiān guānyuán pàn àn de shíhou nǎpà zhǐ cuò yìdiǎndiǎn yě kěnéng ràng yí gè wúgū de rén yuānsǐ

    Throughout the book he stressed that human life is paramount: when an official judges a case, even the smallest error can send an innocent person to an unjust death.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 人命

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).