命 mìng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
命运
mìngyùn
fate
Characters in this word
运 yùn
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 云 cloud
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 命运很奇妙。 Mìngyùn hěn qímiào. Fate is very strange.
- 我相信命运。 Wǒ xiāngxìn mìngyùn. I believe in fate.
- 命运会变吗？ Mìngyùn huì biàn ma? Can fate change?