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fate; destiny / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:個|个,條|条)
HSK 3
order / command / CL: , 個|个
HSK 5
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  *命* | 命* | *命
life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc
HSK 6
to save sb's life / (interj.) Help! / Save me!
HSK 6
to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning) / revolution / revolutionary / to revolt (against sb or sth) / to revolutionize (sth) / (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern noun的命) / CL:
HSK 7-9
proposition (logic, math.) / to assign an essay topic
HSK 7-9
life span / life expectancy / lifetime (of a machine)
HSK 7-9
fatal / mortal / deadly / to sacrifice one's life
HSK 7-9
to give a name to / to dub / to christen / to designate / named after / naming
HSK 7-9
to appoint / (job) appointment / CL: 紙|纸
HSK 7-9
to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it
HSK 7-9
life
HSK 7-9
mutually dependent for life (idiom); to rely upon one another for survival / interdependent
HSK 7-9
to cause sb's death / extremely; terribly / (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance
HSK 7-9
mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling
HSK 7-9
lifeline
HSK 7-9
to lose one's life
to risk one's life
to hit (a target)
homicide case / murder case
human life / CL: 條|条
fate; predestination / divinatory art
Mandate of Heaven / destiny / fate / one's life span
to flee / to go into exile (from prison)
fortune-telling / to tell fortune
vitamin (loanword)
to die young / short-lived
lifeline
hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate
natal chart (astrology)
ordained or appointed to a post / to benefit from counsel
horoscope
to work tirelessly; to give one's all; to slave away / to throw away one's life; to sacrifice oneself (usu. for an unworthy cause)
doom / death / desperately
to meet violent death / to get killed
(idiom) to settle down and pursue one's path in life
(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
to follow your orders / to do as you bid
to be born under an ill star
to be predestined
predestination / karma
lucky (to have escaped death or serious injury)
to demand sb's life
(idiom) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis
to die (idiom) / to breathe one's last / to give up the ghost
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death
to follow orders / to abide by / to obey
the course of one's life / one's fate
to report on completion of a mission / debriefing
to accept an order
to preserve one's life; to ensure one's survival
to die / to perish
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
to escape / to flee / to run for one's life
to receive orders / to follow orders / to act under orders
to pay with one's life
to follow obediently
to obey an order / to comply / to do sb's bidding / to do as requested
runaway (idiom); desperate criminal / fugitive
to lose one's life / to get killed
to think too much of oneself / self-important / arrogant
human life is beyond value (idiom)
to commit suicide / to have one's life cut short
(idiom) terribly busy / up to one's ears in work
to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate / to be resigned to sth
to plot and kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
to be content with what one is
to kill sb / to murder
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
to have disregard for human life (idiom)
to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky
to consider oneself to be (sth positive)
divination based on the eight characters of one's birth date
lit. to love money as much as one's own life (idiom) / fig. avaricious / tightfisted
exerting all one's strength
to meet with many difficulties in one's life (idiom)
unnatural death; violent death
to be on call / to be on standby
see 拼命
to give sincere advice (idiom) / to exhort earnestly
vitally important / a matter of life and death
to be at death's door (idiom)
Imperial order or edict (old)
to rush about on errands / to be kept on the run
against orders / to disobey / to refuse to accept orders
suicide note
to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
to give orders
lifeblood / the thing that one cherishes most in life / (coll.) family jewels (male genitals)
to visit the Yellow Springs / to die
fate / one's fortune
bad times, adverse fate (idiom)
amphetamine (medical) (loanword)
stingy; penny-pinching
to gamble with life / to take reckless risks

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