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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
- —命日Popularanniversary of a person's death; monthly return of the date of someone's death
- —命名Popularnaming; christening
- —余命Popularremainder of one's life; one's remaining days; time left (to live)
- —致命傷Popularfatal wound
- —致命的Popularfatal; lethal
- —生命力Popularvitality; (one's) life force
- —生命保険Popularlife insurance
- —命order; command; decree; life; destiny; fate
- —遺命will; dying instructions
- —一命one life; one's life; one order; one command
- —恩命gracious command or words
- —下命order; command
- —官命official orders
- —厳命strict order; peremptory command
- —失命losing one's life; dying
- —主命ruler's orders; master's orders
- —助命sparing a life; clemency; reconsideration of an employee's dismissal
- —召命call; divine call
- —絶命end of life; death; breathing one's last
- —尊命your order