命 destiny, fate, one's life (refers to 'what happens every day' and not to 'being alive physically'); command, decree 令,口,亼,𠆢,一,叩,合,卩,

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命

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

メイ　･　ミョウ
ME　I　･　MYO　U

Kun-yomi

いのち
i　no　chi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

令

レイ,× HTML entity: 令 command, an order the rules, dictatorial, human authority figures, an honorific prefix for a person; cause to occur

　IN FRONT OF PERSON is PERSON KNEELING AND BOWING
…or: emphasis on NOW, IMMEDIATELY
…or: PERSON with ROD and SEGMENT in BENT OVER PERSON
…or: PERSON with ROD and SEGMENT in TENSE NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
　

口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

亼

シュウ,ジュウ,あつまる aligned assembly of [something] before [someone], person's rod

　PERSON with marker
…or: ARRAYED before a PERSON
…or: PERSON and ROD
　

𠆢

× HTML entity: 𠆢 person

　PERSON
　

一

イチ,イツ,ひと～ horizontal, array of items, reciprocating lateral motion, indicates width or extent, one segment, rod stalk or stem

　SIDE TO SIDE, BACK AND FORTH
　

叩

コウ,たた,はた,すぎ knock, to compact, a series of impactions, impact hammering, beat one's head against hard-packed soil, drumbeats; kowtow, bow while assuming the lordosis position many times, to flame, to use up all one's money

　BENDING OVER, KINKY with ORIFICE, MOUTH
　

合

ゴウ,ガッ,カッ,あ,～あ,あい～,～あい unite, conjunction, to close by joining together, consent, combine, fit together

　PERSON and ROD with ORIFICE
…or PERSON with ONE ORIFICE
…or: ONE PERSON with ORIFICE
…or: ERECT SLIDING TAUT ROD with ORIFICE
…or: IN FRONT OF PERSON is ORIFICE
　

卩

セツ,わりふ kinked, bent; person bending over, kinky

　VERTICAL MOTION, ROD with NO-LONGER-INTEGRATED FOOT
…or: TOP TO BOTTOM with TENSION
　

Meanings of elements

COMMAND A DICTATORIAL RULE, CAUSE TO OCCUR with ORIFICE, MOUTH, CAVITY OR PASSAGE OF THE BODY, AN OPENING
…or: IN FRONT OF PERSON with SERIES OF IMPACTIONS
…or: UNITE, CONJUNCTION, JUXTAPOSE with BENDING OVER
…or: BEFITTINGLY BENT OVER

Issuing an「oral command」or a「command for orifice」should remind most of us of daily life, as might「person arrayed for impacting head into soil.」The will of one's human bosses and the will of the gods, to mean FATE, DESTINY, THE LIFE ONE LEADS. One's beliefs and job: these two sets of commands determine one's LIFE more than any other factors, particularly the life of a harem concubine, service provider, folks owned as slaves unable to determine their own destiny, most every employee, and so on other than perhaps the wealthiest 1%…「befittingly bent over」or「bending over with consent, fit together, juxtapose, unite, to close a gap by joining」and「consent to bending over and orifice juxtaposed with rod of person above」as having no choice but to follow the fate decreed by the lord, the job, and all other human authority figures, the bosses in one's LIFE, assuming the lordosis position and taking the shaft on command, smiling all the while.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc
Japanese: life, life force, lifetime, lifespan, most important thing, foundation, core, fate, destiny, karma, the spoken words of the emperor or a noble, Lord, Highness, you, command, decree, risking one's life, life and death, risky, desperate, begging for one's life, pleading for one's life, to order, to command, to appoint, to put one's life on the line
Unihan extended: life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction
EDRDG: fate; command; decree; destiny; life; appoint

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system. Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else. This site describes glyph meanings, not people. These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect. The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language? (More...) Despite how bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only have been worse?

By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.