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
- —知命age 50
- —致命fatal
- —勅命imperial command
- —帝命imperial order
- —天命God's will; heaven's decree; mandate of Heaven; fate; karma; destiny; one's life; one's lifespan
- —特命special directive; special order; special mission; special appointment
- —内命private or secret orders
- —命根life
- —命数span of life; one's term of existence; one's time (alive); one's days; destiny; fate; assigning a name to a number
- —命脈life; thread of life
- —用命command; order; request; order (for an item)
- —復命reporting; returning (one's findings to a person)
- —長命long life
- —拝命receiving an official appointment; being appointed (to the post of)
- —薄命misfortune; short life; evil fate
- —露命transient life; ephemeral existence
- —落命losing one's life; death
- —待命waiting for orders
- —君命the orders of one's ruler
- —別命another order; different order; special mission