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命名

mìng míng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

命名 (mìng míng) means "to give a name to". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 命名 means

1. to give a name to
2. to dub
3. to christen
4. to designate
5. named after
6. naming

The characters in 命名

• 命mìnglife; fate; order or command
• 名míngname; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners)

Example sentences

• 他以他祖父的名字被命名。
  Tā yǐ tā zǔfù de míngzi bèi mìngmíng.
  He was named after his grandfather.
• 他们的儿子被命名为爱德华。
  Tāmen de érzi bèi mìngmíng wèi àidéhuá.
  Their boy was named Edward.
• 他们为他们的婴儿命名为珍。
  They named their baby Jane.
• 弹钢琴的女孩被命名为秋子。
  The girl playing the piano is named Akiko.
• 父亲以他姑姑的名字为我命名。
  Fùqīn yǐ tā gūgu de míngzi wèi wǒ mìngmíng.
  Father named me after his aunt.
• 他们把船命名为「五月花号」。
  They named the ship the Mayflower.

Words starting with 命名

• 命名日mìng míng rìname day (tradition of celebrating a given name on a certain day of the year)
• 命名法mìng míng fǎnomenclature
• 命名系统mìng míng xì tǒngsystem of nomenclature

Words containing 命名

• 未命名wèi mìng mínguntitled; unnamed; no name
• 重命名chóng mìng míng(computing) to rename
• 以人名命名yǐ rén míng mìng míngto name sth after a person; named after; eponymous
• 受洗命名shòu xǐ mìng míngto be christened
• 驼峰命名法tuó fēng mìng míng fǎ(computing) CamelCase

Where 命名 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · mǐn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read mìng míng correctly.
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