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命

JLPT N3 SL3 8 strokes Frequency: #465

Meanings

Fate, Command, Decree, Destiny, Life, Appoint

Radicals

口

Decomposition

⿹令口

Etymology

Ideographic: An order 令 given by mouth 口

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 8

Stroke Order

1 diagonal top-to-bottom

2 diagonal right-to-left

3 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

4 vertical bottom-to-top

5 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

6 horizontal bottom-to-top

7 hook bottom-right-to-top-left

8 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ミョウ myou

メイ mei

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

いのち inochi

Words Using This Kanji

442 words total

Other (20 words)

五月革命ごがつかくめい

May 68 (period of civil unrest in France; May-June 1968)

七月革命しちがつかくめい

July Revolution (France, 1830)

三月革命さんがつかくめい

March Revolution (Austria and Germany, 1848)

二月革命にがつかくめい

February Revolution (France, 1848)

十一月革命じゅういちがつかくめい

October Revolution (Russia, 1917)

名誉革命めいよかくめい

Glorious Revolution (England; 1688-1689)

運命の悪戯うんめいのいたずら

quirk of fate

本命チョコほんめいチョコ

chocolate given to a man on Valentine's day out of genuine sentiment

imperial command

life raft

Izanagi-no-Mikoto

Izanami-no-Mikoto

Okuninushi

shoot-down order (e.g. for ballistic missile)

命数法めいすうほう

numeration system

弾道ミサイル破壊措置命令だんどうミサイルはかいそちめいれい

ballistic-missile shoot-down order

命を惜しむいのちをおしむ

to hold one's life dear

定命じょうみょう

one's predestined length of life

メキシコ革命メキシコかくめい

Mexican Revolution (1910)

革命派かくめいは

revolutionaries

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