受命 shòumìng

  1. shòumìng verb to receive orders [from a ruler]
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '受命' 2; Queen 1999, p. 290)
  2. shòumìng verb to receive a mandate [from Heaven]
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '受命' 1)
  3. shòumìng verb to receive counsel; to receive training
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 承教 (CC-CEDICT '受命'; Guoyu '受命' 3)
  4. shòumìng verb ordained or appointed to a post
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '受命'; Guoyu '受命' 4)

Also contained in

见危受命临危受命受命以来将受命于君受命乎天

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 6 Miaofa Lianhua Jing Wen Ju 妙法蓮華經文句 — count: 9
  • Scroll 4 Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經 — count: 6
  • Scroll 5 Zun Po Xu Mi Pusa Suo Ji Lun 尊婆須蜜菩薩所集論 — count: 5
  • Scroll 4 Wei Mo Jing Yi Shu 維摩經義疏 — count: 5
  • Scroll 7 Fa Hua Yi Shu 法華義疏 — count: 5
  • Scroll 8 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 4 , has English translation
  • Scroll 1 Fa Hua Yi Shu 法華義疏 — count: 4
  • Scroll 7 Fa Hua Jing Yi Ji 法華經義記 — count: 4
  • Scroll 42 Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經 — count: 4 , has English translation , has parallel version
  • Scroll 6 Record of the Teaching and Practices of Siming (Siming Zunzhe Jiao Xing Lu) 四明尊者教行錄 — count: 3

Collocations

  • 人受命 (人受命) 使人受命 — Sutra on the Great Reliable Brahman (Da Jiangu Poluomen Jing) 大堅固婆羅門緣起經, Scroll 1 — count: 6
  • 使者受命 (使者受命) 使者受命 — Pusa Toushen Yi E Hu Qi Ta Yinyuan Jing 菩薩投身飴餓虎起塔因緣經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
  • 受命痛 (受命痛) 或有人受命痛不受身痛 — Zun Po Xu Mi Pusa Suo Ji Lun 尊婆須蜜菩薩所集論, Scroll 5 — count: 5
  • 受命最后 (受命最後) 受命最後覺 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 42 — count: 4
  • 受命得名 (受命得名) 受命得名色得六入 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 4 — count: 3
  • 受命及 (受命及) 受命及得名色 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 4 — count: 3
  • 受命无穷 (受命無窮) 受命無窮 — Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含經, Scroll 18 — count: 2
  • 受命边际 (受命邊際) 爾時但受身邊際受命邊際受 — Yogācāryabhūmiśāstra (Yujia Shi Di Lun) 瑜伽師地論, Scroll 51 — count: 2
  • 受命往 (受命往) 尊者受命往舍衛城 — Zhong Xu Mohe Di Jing 佛本行集經, Scroll 12 — count: 2
  • 受命通经 (受命通經) 此品第二明通經者受命通經 — Fa Hua Jing Yi Ji 法華經義記, Scroll 7 — count: 2