命
mìng HSK3

life

命 mìng
life noun
The state of being alive; the physical life of a person or animal

我欠你一条命。

wǒ qiàn nǐ yī tiáo mìng.

I owe you my life.

他们就像是有九条命似的。

tā​men jiù xiàng shì yǒu jiǔ tiáo mìng shì​de.

It's like they've got nine lives.

fate noun
One's lot or destiny; the luck or circumstances one is born with

他的命在你手里。

tā de mìng zài nǐ shǒu​lǐ.

His life is in your hands.

order nounverb
an instruction or command given by a superior
to order verb
to command or instruct someone to do something
to assign verb
To give or determine a name, title, or topic
to consider oneself
(bound form) to regard oneself as; to take oneself to be
surname
a Chinese surname

Frequency
Character
Written text
258th most common 870.0 per million
Movie subtitles
303rd most common 534.0 per million appears in 84% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
121.0 per million appears in 37% of films
Written text
58.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+547D

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)