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
- —作戦命令operation order
- —十月革命October Revolution
- —出動命令marching orders; sailing orders
- —準備命令warning order
- —人工生命artificial life
- —人命救助lifesaving
- —生命科学life science
- —生命倫理bioethics
- —絶体絶命desperate situation with no escape; being driven into a corner; being cornered; last extremity
- —反動革命counterrevolution
- —平均余命life expectancy
- —命令一下handed-down order; issued instruction; word of command
- —運命論者fatalist
- —亡命文学exile literature
- —亡命生活life in exile
- —亡命政権government in exile
- —行政命令administrative or executive order
- —至上命令unconditional command; must-obey order
- —宿命論者fatalist
- —政治亡命political asylum; political exile