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life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:個|个,條|条)
HSK 3
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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
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
fatal / mortal / deadly / to sacrifice one's life
HSK 7-9
to appoint / (job) appointment / CL: 紙|纸
HSK 7-9
mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling
HSK 7-9
life span / life expectancy / lifetime (of a machine)
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
predestination / karma
human life / CL: 條|条
to receive orders / to follow orders / to act under orders
fortune-telling / to tell fortune
to lose one's life
Mandate of Heaven / destiny / fate / one's life span
to risk one's life
to escape / to flee / to run for one's life
to be on call / to be on standby
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)
see 拼命
(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
to press sb to death / fig. to pressurize sb continually
to give orders
(idiom) to settle down and pursue one's path in life
to demand sb's life
to flee / to go into exile (from prison)
to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
to report on completion of a mission / debriefing
ordained or appointed to a post / to benefit from counsel
vitamin (loanword)
to die young / short-lived
to spare sb's life
hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate
to pay with one's life
to meet violent death / to get killed
to follow your orders / to do as you bid
to accept an order
(idiom) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis
to die / to perish
to follow orders / to abide by / to obey
Imperial order or edict (old)
violent death (idiom); to die in a disaster / an unnatural death
to lose one's life / to get killed
to consider oneself to be (sth positive)
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky
to obey an order / to comply / to do sb's bidding / to do as requested
doom / death / desperately
to commit suicide / to have one's life cut short
against orders / to disobey / to refuse to accept orders
(idiom) terribly busy / up to one's ears in work
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
to have disregard for human life (idiom)
exerting all one's strength
unnatural death; violent death
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
to love wine as one's life (idiom); fond of the bottle
to preserve one's life; to ensure one's survival
lit. to love money as much as one's own life (idiom) / fig. avaricious / tightfisted
to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate / to be resigned to sth
to give sincere advice (idiom) / to exhort earnestly
to rush about on errands / to be kept on the run
to gamble with life / to take reckless risks
to sacrifice one's life in a crisis
fate / one's fortune
stingy; penny-pinching
the will of Heaven / the will of God
half a life / only half alive / barely alive / (scared, beaten etc) half to death
to die (in an accident etc) / to have one's life cut short
to die
disobedient / to violate the Mandate of Heaven (天命)
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
French Revolution (1789-1799)
counterrevolutionary
commandment
your order (honorific)
October Revolution
(Tw) to have been dealt a hard lot in life (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [pháinn-miā])
to lay down one's life
variant of 殞命|殒命 / to die / to perish
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom) / (said to accept sb's request, invitation etc)
to not dare to disobey an order (idiom)
ketamine (C13H16ClNO) (slang)
(of a team) to throw oneself into the battle
to disobey
Second Revolution, campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 and the Northern Warlords
to await orders; to be on call
to live out a pointless existence
Glorious Revolution (England, 1688)
ketamine (loanword)
fatal / resulting in sb's death
lucky / blessed with good fortune

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