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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)

非命ひめい

unnatural or untimely death

奔命ほんめい

wearing oneself out with work

逆命題ぎゃくめいだい

converse proposition

存命ぞんめい

being alive

社命しゃめい

company orders

至上命令しじょうめいれい

unconditional command

文化大革命ぶんかだいかくめい

(China's) Cultural Revolution (1966-76)

宿命論しゅくめいろん

fatalism

宿命論者しゅくめいろんじゃ

fatalist

政治亡命せいじぼうめい

political asylum

消費革命しょうひかくめい

consumer revolution

清教徒革命せいきょうとかくめい

Puritan Revolution

命名式めいめいしき

christening (ceremony)

産業革命さんぎょうかくめい

Industrial Revolution

電命でんめい

telegraphed instructions

死命しめい

fate

市民革命しみんかくめい

people's revolution

救命具きゅうめいぐ

lifesaving equipment

大命たいめい

imperial command

恩命おんめい

gracious command or words

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