命 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')

Contained in

• 身命 body and life
• 身坏命终(身壞命終) the break-up of the body, after death
• 寿命(壽命) life span; life expectancy ; life span; life expectancy
• 宿命 predestination; destiny ; Destiny ; predestination ; Past Lives ; a past life
• 安心立命 to find peace and attain enlightenment
• 宿命智 knowledge of past lives
• 一切诸如来心光明加持普贤菩萨延命金刚最胜陀罗尼经(一切諸如來心光明加持普賢菩薩延命金剛最勝陀羅尼經) Sarvatathagata Mind Radiating Light Empowers Samantabhadra Bodhisattva Longevity Vajra Dharani Sutra; Yiqie Zhuru Lai Xin Guangming Jia Chi Puxian Pusa Yan Ming Jingang Zui Sheng Tuoluoni Jing
• 1. 佛光人身语行为要有社会性 2. 佛光人弘法利生要有使命感 3. 佛光人五欲六尘要有自制力 4. 佛光人做人处事要有公德心(1. 佛光人身語行為要有社會性 2. 佛光人弘法利生要有使命感 3. 佛光人五欲六塵要有自制力 4. 佛光人做人處事要有公德心) 1. Fo Guang members should speak and act with a sense of social involvement. 2. Fo Guang members should propagate the Dharma and benefit living beings with a sense of mission. 3. Fo Guang members should have self-discipline against the Five Desires and Six Objects. 4. Fo Guang members have a sense of social responsibility.
• 不惜身命 willingness to give up one's own life
• 命根闭塞(命根閉塞) interruption in the life faculty
• 命命鸟(命命鳥) kalavinka; jivajivaka bird
• 一花一木都有生命 一山一水都有生机 一人一事都有道理 一举一动都有因果(一花一木都有生命 一山一水都有生機 一人一事都有道理 一舉一動都有因果) Every flower and tree has its own life, Every mountain and river has its own vitality, Every person and matter has its own reasons, Every move and action has its own cause and effect.
• 三大革命 three great revolutions
• 人命在呼吸间(人命在呼吸間) we can only count on a single breath

Also contained in

命名系统 、 见危受命 、 短命鬼 、 安非他命 、 爱财如命 、 相命者 、 爱国如命 、 自命 、 从命 、 命运 、 大革命 、 宿命论 、 见危授命 、 人命关天 、 无生命 、 统一资源命名 、 受命以来 、 人命危浅 、 命与之相连 、 命名 、 耳提面命 、 算命者 、 自命不凡 、 绝命书 、 命途多舛 、 一钱如命 、 平均寿命 、 威尊命贱 、 革命军 、 冏命 、 狠命 、 命令列 、 领命 、 要命 、 方命 、 命不久已 、 出人命

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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