命 mìng life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc syn 命运 命運 mìng yùn fate / destiny / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 运 運 yùn to move / to transport / to use / to apply / fortune / luck / fate syn 死活 sǐ huó life or death / fate / no matter what / anyway / for the life of me syn 搏击 搏擊 bó jī to fight, esp. with hands / wrestling (as a sport) / to wrestle / to wrestle (against fate, with a problem etc) / to capture prey syn 幸免 xìng miǎn to avoid (an unpleasant fate) syn 坐以待毙 坐以待斃 zuò yǐ dài bì to sit and wait for death (idiom) / resigned to one's fate syn 缘分 緣分 yuán fèn fate or chance that brings people together / predestined affinity or relationship / (Budd.) destiny syn 认命 認命 rèn mìng to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate / to be resigned to sth syn 听天由命 聽天由命 tīng tiān yóu mìng (idiom) to submit to the will of heaven / to resign oneself to fate / to trust to luck syn 天命 tiān mìng Mandate of Heaven / destiny / fate / one's life span syn 情缘 情緣 qíng yuán predestined love / love affinity syn 天机 天機 tiān jī mystery known only to heaven (archaic) / inscrutable twist of fate / fig. top secret syn 时运 時運 shí yùn circumstances / fate syn 生老病死 shēng lǎo bìng sǐ lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality) syn 因缘 因緣 yīn yuán chance / opportunity / predestined relationship / (Buddhist) principal and secondary causes / chain of cause and effect syn 姻缘 姻緣 yīn yuán a marriage predestined by fate syn 苦命 kǔ mìng hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate syn 悲天悯人 悲天憫人 bēi tiān mǐn rén to bemoan the state of the universe and pity the fate of mankind syn 国运 國運 guó yùn fate of the nation 阳寿 陽壽 yáng shòu predestined lifespan 有缘 有緣 yǒu yuán related / brought together by fate 缘份 緣份 yuán fèn also written 緣分|缘分 / fate or chance that brings people together / predestined affinity or relationship / (Budd.) destiny 命理 mìng lǐ fate / predestination / divinatory art 星宿 xīng xiù constellation (arch., now 星座) / one of the 28 constellations of traditional Chinese astronomy and astrology / motion of stars since one's birth (predetermining one's fate in astrology) syn 苟且 gǒu qiě perfunctory / careless / drifting along / resigned to one's fate / improper (relations) / illicit (sex) syn 果报 果報 guǒ bào karma / preordained fate (Buddhism) 命定 mìng dìng to be predestined 垫背 墊背 diàn bèi to serve as a sacrificial victim / to suffer for sb else / scapegoat / to share sb's fate 因由 yīn yóu reason / cause / predestined relationship (Buddhism) syn 气数 氣數 qì shu fate / destiny / one's lot syn 魁星 kuí xīng stars of the Big Dipper that constitute the rectangular body of the dipper / Kuixing, Daoist God of fate 运道 運道 yùn dao fortune / luck / fate 缘 緣 yuán cause / reason / karma / fate / predestined affinity / margin / hem / edge / along syn 生死有命 shēng sǐ yǒu mìng life and death are ruled by fate (idiom) 生不逢时 生不逢時 shēng bù féng shí born at the wrong time (idiom) / unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate) / born under an unlucky star / ahead of his time syn 不知丁董 bù zhī dīng dǒng forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom) / unheeding the lessons of the past 命中注定 命中註定 mìng zhōng zhù dìng decreed by fate (idiom) / destined / fated 时乖命蹇 時乖命蹇 shí guāi mìng jiǎn bad times, adverse fate (idiom) 节哀顺变 節哀順變 jié āi shùn biàn restrain your grief, accept fate (condolence phrase) 前缘未了 前緣未了 qián yuán wèi liǎo one's predestined fate is yet to be fulfilled (idiom) 前世姻缘 前世姻緣 qián shì yīn yuán a marriage predestined in a former life (idiom) 前生冤孽 qián shēng yuān niè predestined relationship 寿数 壽數 shòu shu predestined length of life syn 寿数已尽 壽數已盡 shòu shù yǐ jǐn to die (when one's predestined life span is up) 宿分 sù fèn predestined relationship 宿缘 宿緣 sù yuán (Buddhism) predestined relationship 不是一家人不进一家门 不是一家人不進一家門 bù shì yī jiā rén bù jìn yī jiā mén people who don't belong together, don't get to live together (idiom) / marriages are predestined / people marry because they share common traits 怨命 yuàn mìng to complain about one's fate / to bemoan one's lot 时运不济 時運不濟 shí yùn bù jì fate is unfavorable (idiom) / the omens are not good 祸福吉凶 禍福吉凶 huò fú jí xiōng fate / portent / luck or disasters as foretold in the stars (astrology) 逆运 逆運 nì yùn bad luck / unlucky fate 运命 運命 yùn mìng fate / one's fortune 颓运 頹運 tuí yùn crumbling fate / declining fortune 魁星阁 魁星閣 kuí xīng gé temple to Kuixing, Daoist God of fate 命途 mìng tú the course of one's life / one's fate 事业线 事業線 shì yè xiàn (palmistry) fate line / career prospects line (running vertically up the palm to the base of the middle finger) / (slang) cleavage 撞运气 撞運氣 zhuàng yùn qi to try one's luck / to rely on fate 人相学 人相學 rén xiàng xué physiognomy (judgment of a person's fate, character etc, based on facial features) 齐人之福 齊人之福 qí rén zhī fú lit. the happy fate of the man from Qi (who had a wife and a concubine) (idiom) / fig. (ironically) the joy of having several partners / the life of a pasha 改运 改運 gǎi yùn to alter one's fate / to improve one's luck (e.g. by changing one's name or phone number) 天数 天數 tiān shù number of days / fate / destiny syn 生老病死 shēng - lǎo - bìng - sǐ lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality) syn 