Memory phrase for the character: 命

命

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Meaning

life, fate, order or command

Pronunciation

mìng

Explanation

 Left: mouth 口, top/right: order, command 令 (A lid on the bent person卩, was ordered)

Mnemonic
 
The mouth orders to live.

Radicals

口 mouth, openingThis is a small square. If it is bigger: 囗, it is an enclosure.
coverOther covers are 冖 or
令 order, commandBased 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)




 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)
 

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