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
- —革命家revolutionary
- —運命的destined; predestined; fated; fateful
- —逆命題converse proposition
- —宿命的fateful; predestined
- —宿命論fatalism
- —命名式christening (ceremony)
- —救命具lifesaving equipment
- —生命線lifeline; matter of life or death; indispensable thing; life line (in palm reading)
- —革命児revolutionary; child of the revolution; man of revolutionary temperament
- —存命中in one's lifetime; (while) in life
- —革命軍revolutionary army
- —任命権appointive power
- —命中率accuracy rate
- —命名法nomenclature
- —生命体life form; life-form
- —命名日baptism day; name day
- —使命感sense of duty; sense of purpose; vocation
- —延命草plectranthus
- —生命権right to life
- —命数法numeration system