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)
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メイミョウ
Kun readings
いのち
Words with 命
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —立命館アジア太平洋大学Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
- —人事を尽くして天命を待つman proposes, God disposes; do your best and leave the rest to providence; man does what man can do then awaits the verdict of heaven (or fate)
- —命令セットアーキテクチャinstruction set architecture
- —弾道ミサイル破壊措置命令ballistic-missile shoot-down order; order to shoot down a ballistic missile
- —アメリカンファミリー生命American Family Life Assurance; Aflac
- —縮小命令セットコンピュータReduced Instruction Set Computer (or Computing); RISC
- —複雑命令セットコンピュータComplex Instruction Set Computer; CISC
- —複合命令セットコンピューターCISC; Composite Instruction Set Computer
- —ストリーミングＳＩＭＤ拡張命令Streaming SIMD Extensions; SSE
- —明示的並列命令コンピューティング技術Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing; EPIC
- —救命筏life raft; lifeboat
- —救命桴life raft; lifeboat
- —絶対絶命desperate situation with no escape; being driven into a corner; being cornered; last extremity
- —命に依りunder the orders of; by order (command)
- —一生けん命very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can; with all one's might; for dear life; eagerly; desperately
- —肝に命じるto be deeply impressed; to take to heart; to engrave on one's heart; to bear in mind; to engrave on one's liver
- —運命付けるto preordain
- —肝に命ずるto engrave in one's heart; to inscribe on one's liver
- —キモに命じるto be deeply impressed; to take to heart; to engrave on one's heart; to bear in mind; to engrave on one's liver
- —余命幾許もないhaving a short time to live; having not much longer to live; having little time left; (one's) days are numbered