命

HSK 5#1484 by frequencyradical 口

mìng["n","g"]

life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc

Examples

你不要命啦！

Are you nuts?

猫有七条命。

A cat has seven lives.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.