Chinese Character 命 Meanings and components.

Form

命

Meaning

命 meaning[3] in English

Life.

Fate.

Order Or Command.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 命 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are variant of 集[ji2] (亼) , and to knock (叩)

Its radical[1] is: 口 (kou3) which means: Mouth, Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc), Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls, .口kou3mouth

In cangjie it is written with OMRL

How to write 命

To write命ming4life you should write a combination of 亼ji2variant of … , 叩kou4to knock arranged in a 吕 shape:

亼 + 叩 = 命

命 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 命 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 命, looks as follow:

命
Pinyin:ming4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Life . Fate . Order Or Command . To Assign A Name, Title Etc
亼
Pinyin:ji2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 集[Ji2]
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit
叩
Pinyin:kou4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Knock . To Kowtow
口
Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls
卩
Pinyin:jie2
Meaning[3]: 'Seal' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 26)

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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