命

命
mìng = mi + (e)ng4
life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc
命 = 亼 + 叩 : In engine's bathroom, Marilyn Monroe kow tows before a pointed hat. She thinks that this is her fate.

命 character breakdown

亼
jí = ji + Ø2
variant of 集[ji2]
亼 = 一 + 人 : This one looks like a pointed cap.

Joan of Arc (ji) is going to have her first day of school the next day. During the night she sneaked into the space station's kitchen (Ø2) and found a pointed cap (亼) filled with sweets, which she starts eating immediately.
叩
kòu = k + ou4
to knock / to kowtow
叩 = 卩 + 口 : In the outhouse's bathroom, Karl Marx kow tows before the baby seal and its huge mandarin.
叩
敂
kòu = k + ou4
old variant of 叩[kou4] / to knock
叩 = 卩 + 口 : In the outhouse's bathroom, Karl Marx kow tows before the baby seal and its huge mandarin.

Characters with 命 as component

命 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 命

使
命
mission / long-term task to which one devotes oneself / a calling
亡
命
to flee / to go into exile (from prison)
人
人
命
命
关
關
天
天
human life is beyond value (idiom)
以
人
名
命
名
to name sth after a person / named after / eponymous
任
任
命
命
状
狀
certificate of appointment (to government office)
保
命
to save one's life / to survive
二
次
革
命
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[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] and the Northern Warlords
丢
丟
命
命
to die
中
中
国
國
国
國
民
民
党
黨
革
革
命
命
委
委
员
員
会
會
Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
二
次
革
命
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[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] and the Northern Warlords

Sentences with 命

没
méi
有
yǒu
大
dà
王
wáng
的
de
命
mìng
令
lìng
 
 
谁
shéi
也
yě
不
bù
能
néng
走
zǒu
Nobody can pass without the king's order.