命

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

命
- 亼
  - 一
  - 人
    - 丿
    - ㇏
- 叩
  - 卩
    - 丨
    - ㇆
      - 一
      - 亅
  - 口

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

偿

償

cháng

命

mìng

to pay with one's life

催

cui̅

命

mìng

to press sb to death / fig. to pressurize sb continually

伪

偽

wěi

命

mìng

题

題

tí

false proposition / fundamentally flawed notion / (in popular usage, can also refer to anything based on a flawed notion, such as a false dichotomy or a question that starts with a false premise)

光

gua̅ng

荣

榮

róng

革

gé

命

mìng

Glorious Revolution (England, 1688)

克

kè