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
- —朝命imperial command; government order
- —受命receiving an order; commission; receiving a mandate from heaven and becoming an emperor (in China)
- —密命secret orders
- —抗命disobeying an order; insubordination
- —運命論fatalism
- —革命的revolutionary
- —救命艇lifeboat
- —使命者messenger
- —申命記Deuteronomy (book of the Bible)
- —任命式investiture
- —任命状written appointment
- —反革命counterrevolution
- —亡命者refugee; exile; displaced persons
- —命中数number of hits
- —命中弾(direct) hit; straight shot
- —命令形imperative form; command
- —命令書decree; directive
- —命令文imperative sentence; imperative statement
- —命令法imperative mood
- —革命歌revolutionary song