使命 – Vocabulary details

使し命めい

Meanings

Noun

1. mission; errand

それが今こん回かいの使し命めいだ。That's our mission this time.

2. task; duty; obligation

子こどもを守まもるのは親おやの使し命めいだ。Protecting children is a parent's duty.

Kanji used

使

use (something physical)

命

continued existence

Pitch accent

し

めい

Used in: 2564

Composed of

使し

messenger; police and judicial chief (Heian and Kamakura periods); klesha (polluting thoughts such as greed, hatred and delusion, which result in suffering)

命めい

order; command; life; destiny; fate

Used in vocabulary (5 in total)

使し命めい感かん

sense of duty; sense of purpose; vocation

使し命めいを果はたす

to carry out one's mission

使し命めいを帯おびる

to be charged with a mission

使し命めい意い識しき

sense of (one's) mission; awareness of one's duty (calling)

使し命めい者しゃ

messenger

Examples (11 in total)

それが今こん回かいの使し命めいだ。

That's our mission this time.

使し命めいを全まっとうするつもりです。

I intend to fulfill my mission.

子こどもを守まもるのは親おやの使し命めいだ。

Protecting children is a parent's duty.