命
Meaning
mìng ming4
- life
- fate
- order or command
- to assign a name, title etc
Example sentences
- Someone saved my life.
- He saved my life.
- He saved my life at the risk of his own.
- These shoes are killing me.
HSK words with 命
- 生命shēngmìnglife (as the characteristic of living beings)
- 命运mìngyùnfate; destiny
- 命令mìnglìngorder
- 救命jiùmìngto save sb's life
- 革命gémìngto withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning)
- 拼命pīnmìngto do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it
- 使命shǐmìngmission
- 致命zhìmìngfatal
- 命名mìngmíngto give a name to
- 性命xìngmìnglife
- 任命rènmìngto appoint
- 要命yàomìngto cause sb's death
- 寿命shòumìnglife span
- 命题mìngtíproposition (logic, math.)
- 相依为命xiāngyīwéimìngmutually dependent for life (idiom); to rely upon one another for survival
- 生命线shēngmìngxiànlifeline