Jyutping: ming6
Radical: 口
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one's destined to be second-in-line, like a concubine
The fugitive
calling, a sense of vocation
Stand by; On-call
something to accelerate one's death / someone who keeps asking other to hurry up / a powerful and devastating stance or measures taken on one
to refer a person who urges other people to die earlier, such as a superstitious witch or a quack
Civil Disobedience
lit. half a life, meaning one who worked flat out at work, and have exhausted half of one's life or energy
when one's life is hanging on a thread, relying on something like medicine to extend one's life; to be on the verge of just being able to survive with the help of something (such as money or medicine)
each person's fate and destiny vary from another
lit. to survive on swallowing saliva, meaning one who is extremely poor
to order or command
lucky
Good fate
destiny; fate
Bad fate
narrow escape; close call (spoken)
to compensate with life
(adj.) describes a lucky person who survives after accidents or tragedies, having had a narrow escape.
describes a person (normally female) who is very thin and looking weak; frail (person)
exceptionally and unattractively thin and weak
good / lucky fate
to be perfectly happy to
a situation which is so important that it concerns people's lives
covet a beautiful image while damaging one's health, even to death
an issued order; an issued command; a decision already made
to pay with one's life
(slang) to endure difficult circumstances because someone is ill-fated; to swallow an insult
(v.)(adverb) to work very hard and devotedly; to do something very dangerous that one is risking their life for it; to strive to do something
risking one's life (spoken)
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