Kanji1 / 8
命 kanji
fate, command, decree, destiny, life, appoint
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
メイミョウ
Kun readings
いのち
Words with 命
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —美人薄命beauty and fortune seldom go together; the beautiful die young
- —延命息災health and longevity; enjoying a long and healthy life being untouched by disaster
- —五十知命at age fifty, one comes to know the will of Heaven
- —使命意識sense of (one's) mission; awareness of one's duty (calling)
- —選手生命player's career; one's career in sport; one's career as an athlete
- —息災延命health and longevity; enjoying a long and healthy life being untouched by disaster
- —命令口調tone of command; authoritative tone; commanding tone
- —役者生命acting career; career as an actress
- —四柱推命Four Pillar astrology; originally Chinese method of fortune-telling based on the time, date, month and year of a person's birth
- —革命政府revolutionary government
- —救命胴衣life jacket; life vest
- —運命の力agency of fate; power of fate; La forza del destino (opera by Verdi); the force of destiny
- —定言命法categorical imperative
- —仮言命法hypothetical imperative
- —無上命法categorical imperative
- —命題論理propositional logic; propositional calculus
- —二命名法binomial nomenclature
- —機械命令machine instruction
- —技術革命technology revolution
- —疑似命令pseudo instruction