Dictionary › 授命

授命

shòu mìng

2-character word

What 授命 means

1. to give orders

The characters in 授命

• 授shòu(bound form) to confer; to give; (bound form) to teach; to instruct; (literary) to appoint
• 命mìnglife; fate; order or command

Words containing 授命

• 临危授命lín wēi shòu mìngto sacrifice one's life in a crisis

Sounds the same

Read shòu mìng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 寿命life span; life expectancy; lifetime (of a machine)
• 受命ordained or appointed to a post; to benefit from counsel

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shòu mìng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.