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
- —文化革命cultural revolution
- —命令系統chain of command; line of command; command structure; command system
- —進撃命令marching order; go-ahead
- —中止命令cease and desist order; stay order; discontinuance order; suspension order
- —被任命者appointee; nominee
- —肯定命題affirmative proposition
- —否定命題negative proposition
- —緑の革命Green Revolution; Third Agricultural Revolution
- —農業革命agricultural revolution; agrarian revolution
- —任命権者appointer; person with appointive power
- —命中精度accuracy of fire (gun, missile, etc.)
- —差押命令order of attachment; attachment order; seizure order
- —知的生命intelligent life
- —禁止命令interdict; prohibition order; writ of prohibition
- —奉勅命令command sanctioned by the emperor; imperial command
- —ＩＴ革命IT revolution; information revolution
- —人口革命demographic revolution
- —業務命令order (to an employee from management)
- —文学革命literary revolution (of China; post-1917 emphasis on vernacular forms)
- —絶対命令peremptory command; must-obey order; absolute instruction; categorical imperative