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
- —飛越し命令jump instruction
- —無演算命令no operation instruction; no op
- —命名副領域naming-subdomain
- —命令コードOperation Code; opcode
- —命令セットinstruction set
- —命令再試行instruction execution retry
- —知的生命体intelligent life
- —運命共同体(in the) same boat; (sharing a) common destiny
- —永遠の生命eternal life
- —ドイツ革命German Revolution (1918-1919)
- —十一月革命October Revolution (Russia, 1917); German Revolution (1918-1919)
- —本命チョコchocolate given to a man on Valentine's day out of genuine sentiment
- —救命いかだlife raft; lifeboat
- —天命を知るto turn 50; to reach 50 years of age
- —生命の起源origin of life
- —運命の皮肉irony of fate; twist of fate
- —国民革命軍National Revolutionary Army (Republic of China; 1925-1947)
- —生命情報学bioinformatics
- —永続革命論theory of permanent revolution (esp. Trotsky)
- —運命の悪戯quirk of fate; twist of fate; (an) irony