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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

命赴黄泉mìng fù Huáng quán

to visit the Yellow Springs / to die

命途mìng tú

the course of one's life / one's fate

命途坎坷mìng tú kǎn kě

to have a tough life / to meet much adversity in one's life

命途多舛mìng tú duō chuǎn

to meet with many difficulties in one's life (idiom)

命门mìng mén

(TCM) the right kidney / (TCM) acupuncture point GV-4, midway between the kidneys / the region between the kidneys / the eyes / (fortune-telling) the temples / (fig.) most critical or vulnerable point

命题逻辑mìng tí luó ji

propositional logic

K他命k tā mìng

ketamine (C13H16ClNO) (slang)

一命呜呼yī mìng wū hū

to die (idiom) / to breathe one's last / to give up the ghost

一命归天yī mìng guī tiān

see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yī mìng wū hū]

一命归西yī mìng guī xī

see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yī mìng wū hū]

一命归阴yī mìng guī yīn

see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yī mìng wū hū]

一枪命中yī qiāng mìng zhòng

to hit with the first shot

一钱如命yī qián rú mìng

(idiom) stingy / penny-pinching

三军用命sān jūn yòng mìng

(of a team) to throw oneself into the battle

不听命bù tīng mìng

to disobey

丢命diū mìng

to die

以人名命名yǐ rén míng mìng míng

to name sth after a person / named after / eponymous

任命状rèn mìng zhuàng

certificate of appointment (to government office)

保命bǎo mìng

to preserve one's life / to ensure one's survival

候命hòu mìng

to await orders / to be on call

借命jiè mìng

to live out a pointless existence

伪命题wěi mìng tí

false proposition / fundamentally flawed notion / (in popular usage, can also refer to anything based on a flawed notion, such as a false dichotomy or a question that starts with a false premise)

催命cuī mìng

to press sb to death / fig. to pressurize sb continually

克他命kè tā mìng

ketamine (loanword)

八字命理bā zì mìng lǐ

divination based on the eight characters of one's birth date

冒生命危险mào shēng mìng wēi xiǎn

to risk one's life

半条命bàn tiáo mìng

half a life / only half alive / barely alive / (scared, beaten etc) half to death

反革命fǎn gé mìng

counterrevolutionary

反革命宣传煽动罪fǎn gé mìng xuān chuán shān dòng zuì

the crime of instigating counterrevolutionary propaganda

受命于天shòu mìng yú tiān

to be emperor by the grace of heaven / to have the mandate of heaven

受洗命名shòu xǐ mìng míng

to be christened

唯命是从wéi mìng shì cóng

to follow obediently

嗜酒如命shì jiǔ rú mìng

to love wine as one's life (idiom) / fond of the bottle

四一二反革命政变sì yī èr fǎn gé mìng zhèng biàn

counterrevolutionary coup of 12th April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek's coup against the communists in Shanghai

图财害命tú cái hài mìng

see 謀財害命|谋财害命[móu cái hài mìng]

寿命不长shòu mìng bù cháng

one's days are numbered / not to have long to live (often fig.)

奔命bēn mìng

to rush about on errands / to be kept on the run

好命hǎo mìng

lucky / blessed with good fortune

威尊命贱wēi zūn mìng jiàn

(idiom) the dignity of authority is above life / one must be willing to sacrifice one's life rather than disobey a military order

安身立命ān shēn lì mìng

(idiom) to settle down and pursue one's path in life

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