# 命 — Fate

Frequency rank 286 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 質 (Quality), less common than 反 (Anti).

- On’yomi: めい、みょう
- Kun’yomi: いのち
- Radical: 口 Mouth (Kangxi 30)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

A runner shoves sealed Orders through the wall-hatch Mouth and it spits the envelope straight back with his own death date licked onto the outside.

In words:

- 命 いのち — command,decree,life,destiny
- 命じる めいじる — to order,to command,to appoint
- 命ずる めいずる — to command,to appoint

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