命
命 — myeong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 목숨 명
- Romanization
- myeong
- English
- life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction
- Mandarin
- mìng
- Japanese on'yomi
- メイ, ミョウ, ベイ, マン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- いのち
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #465 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 口 (30, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+547D
Words written with 命
- 준명峻命 엄한 명령
- 명한命限 목숨의 한도
- 별명別命 별도의 명령
- 상명上命 상부의 명령
- 인명人命 사람의 목숨
- 일명一命 하나의 목숨
- 천명天命 하늘의 명령
- 친명親命 부모의 명령
- 군명軍命 군사상의 명령
- 부명父命 아버지의 명령
- 귀명貴命 귀하게 될 운명
- 칙명勅命 임금이 내린 명령
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 命
- 革命かくめい revolution; 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)
- 生命せいめい life; existence; (one's) working life
- 命いのち life; life force; lifetime
- 命令めいれい order; command; decree
- 懸命けんめい eager; earnest; strenuous
- 一生懸命いっしょうけんめい very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can
- 運命うんめい fate; destiny; lot
- 使命しめい mission; errand; task
- 亡命ぼうめい fleeing from one's country; seeking asylum; defection
- 生命保険せいめいほけん life insurance
- 寿命じゅみょう lifespan; life; lifetime
- 任命にんめい appointment; nomination; ordination
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)