mìng

  1. mìng noun life
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: For example, 爱财不爱命 'to love wealth more than life' (CC-CEDICT '命'; Guoyu '命' n 1; Suyu, p. 3; Unihan '命')
  2. mìng verb to order
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 差遣 or 下命令 (CC-CEDICT '命'; Guoyu '命' v 1; Kroll 2015 '命' 1, p. 311)
  3. mìng noun destiny; fate; luck
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: A Confucian and general Chinese belief (CC-CEDICT '命'; Guoyu '命' n 2; Kroll 2015 '命' 3a, p. 311; Unihan '命'; Yao 2000, p. 26)
  4. mìng noun an order; a command
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '命'; Guoyu '命' n 3; ; Kroll 2015 '命' 1a, p. 311; Unihan '命')
  5. mìng verb to name; to assign
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 取定; for example, 命名 'to give a name' (Guoyu '命' v 2; Kroll 2015 '命' 2, p. 311)
  6. mìng noun livelihood
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
  7. mìng noun advice
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '命' 1b, p. 311)
  8. mìng verb to confer a title
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '命' 2a, p. 311)
  9. mìng noun lifespan
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '命' 3, p. 311)
  10. mìng verb to think
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 以为 (Guoyu '命' v 3)
  11. mìng noun life; jīva
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: jīva, or: jīvita, Japanese: mei, or: myou (BCSD '命', p. 251; MW 'jiva'; SH '命', p. 252; Unihan '命')

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 1 Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略 — count: 77
  • Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 62
  • Scroll 3 Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略 — count: 62
  • Scroll 3 Commentary on the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya 俱舍論疏 — count: 58
  • Scroll 156 Abhidharmamahāvibhāṣaśāstra (Apidamo Dapiposha Lun) 阿毘達磨大毘婆沙論 — count: 56
  • Scroll 2 Shi Jian Ji Gu Lue Xu Ji 釋鑑稽古略續集 — count: 56
  • Scroll 3 Notes on the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya 俱舍論記 — count: 55
  • Scroll 56 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 51 , has English translation
  • Scroll 3 Wei Mo Jing Yi Shu 維摩經義疏 — count: 49
  • Scroll 2 Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue 釋氏稽古略 — count: 48

Collocations

  • 命尽 (命儘) 有餘眾生命盡行盡 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 11 — count: 17
  • 命见 (命見) 命見 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 19 — count: 16
  • 有身命 (有身命) 於是雖有身命 — The Fruits of the Contemplative Life (Jizhiguo Jing) 寂志果經, Scroll 1 — count: 8
  • 命过 (命過) 命過復何言 — Sīgāla Pays Homage to the Six Directions (Shijialuoyue Liu Fang Li Jing) 尸迦羅越六方禮經, Scroll 1 — count: 8
  • 人间命 (人間命) 從是人間命盡 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 4 — count: 6
  • 住命 (住命) 而以神力住命三月 — Mahāparinibbānasutta 大般涅槃經, Scroll 1 — count: 6
  • 命使 (命使) 乃命使却 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 3 — count: 6
  • 我有命 (我有命) 見有我有命有身 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 3 — count: 5
  • 命异 (命異) 命異身異 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 5
  • 命行 (命行) 命行清淨 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 8 — count: 5