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
- —非命unnatural or untimely death
- —奔命wearing oneself out with work
- —存命being alive
- —社命company orders
- —身命one's life
- —電命telegraphed instructions
- —死命fate; life or death
- —大命imperial command; royal command
- —懇命kind words
- —立命peace of mind
- —違命disobedience
- —詔命imperial command
- —来命something someone said; nature of something someone said
- —依命by order (of a superior); as instructed; official (e.g. notification)
- —参命imperial army order
- —作命operation order
- —臨命imperial army order
- —藩命feudal decree; edict by a daimyo
- —保命preserving one's life; longevity; long life
- —神命divine command; heaven's will