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
- —革命派revolutionaries
- —命名権naming rights
- —命令調commanding attitude; authoritative tone
- —生命感feeling of vitality; sense of being alive
- —臨参命imperial army order
- —大陸命imperial army order
- —生命刑death penalty
- —再命名retronym; rebaptism; anabaptism
- —生命愛biophilia
- —致命率case fatality rate
- —救命袋escape chute; survival kit; lifebuoy
- —命名者namer; author (of a scientific name)
- —救命索lifeline
- —命令型imperative
- —性革命sexual revolution
- —安心立命spiritual peace and enlightenment; keeping an unperturbed mind through faith
- —一所懸命very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can; with all one's might; for dear life; eagerly; desperately; (of a samurai) devoting oneself to (the defence of) one's territory
- —佳人薄命beauties die young; beauty and luck seldom go together
- —革命運動revolutionary movement
- —行動命令operation order