8 strokes

fate, command, decree, destiny, life, appoint

Kunいのち
Onメイ、ミョウ

Radicals

Common words

  • 命令めいれい
    order, command, decree, directive, (software) instruction, statement
  • 運命うんめい
    fate, destiny, lot
  • 生命せいめい
    life, existence, (one's) working life, career, life force, lifeblood, soul, essence
  • 一生懸命いっしょうけんめい
    very hard, with utmost effort, as hard as one can, with all one's might, for dear life, eagerly, desperately
  • 命じるめいじる
    to order, to command, to appoint
  • 使命しめい
    mission, errand, task, duty, obligation
  • 懸命けんめい
    eager, earnest, strenuous, fervent, assiduous, with utmost effort
  • 亡命ぼうめい
    fleeing from one's country, seeking asylum, defection, emigration (for political reasons), (going into) exile, becoming a (political) refugee
  • 生命保険せいめいほけん
    life insurance
  • 救命きゅうめい
    lifesaving
  • 本命ほんめい
    favorite (to win), favourite, likely winner, one's heart's desire, first choice
  • 延命えんめい
    keeping alive longer, prolonging life, life extension, life-support
  • 人命じんめい
    (human) life
  • 命運めいうん
    fate, destiny
  • 命名めいめい
    naming, christening
  • 命題めいだい
    proposition, thesis, notion, theory, problem, issue, challenge
  • 短命たんめい
    short life, short lived
  • 命日めいにち
    anniversary of a person's death, monthly return of the date of someone's death
  • 致命的ちめいてき
    fatal, lethal
  • 生命力せいめいりょく
    vitality, (one's) life force
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