Memory phrase for the Kanji: 命
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命 |
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Meaning
| life, fate, order or command
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Pronunciation |
mìng |
Explanation |
Left: mouth 口, top/right: order, command 令 (A lid  on the bent person卩, was ordered) |
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The mouth orders to live.
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Radicals
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口
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mouth, opening | This is a small square. If it is bigger: 囗, it is an enclosure. |
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令
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order, command | Based on "bell 铃 líng", this radical 令 can also be understood as a picture of a bell: (The sound of) the bell with the bell mallet マ gives now 今 the command (e.g. to come) |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 生命 |
shēng mìng |
life; living; biological |
| 寿命 |
shòu mìng |
life span; life expectancy |
| 辛亥革命 |
Xīn hài gé mìng |
the Xinhai revolution of 1911 that ended the Qing dynasty |
| 民主革命 |
mín zhǔ gé mìng |
democratic revolution; bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution) |
| 大革命 |
dà gé mìng |
great revolution |
| 奉命 |
fèng mìng |
to receive orders; to follow orders; to act under orders |
| 拼命 |
pīn mìng |
to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it |
| 时乖命蹇 |
shí guāi mìng jiǎn |
bad times, adverse fate (idiom) |
| 诫命 |
jiè mìng |
commandment |
| 命令 |
mìng lìng |
order; command |
| 革命 |
gé mìng |
revolution; revolutionary (politics) |
| 革命 |
gé mìng |
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