(pos:名詞)
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yue:#生命；#人命；生存嘅個體（量詞：條）
eng:life
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yue:冇命 (mou5 meng6)
eng:to cost one's life; to lose one's life
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yue:#命仔 (meng6 zai2)
eng:a humorous way to refer to one's life
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yue:（喺遊戲入面）冇晒命，要入錢喇。 (hai2 jau4 hei3 jap6 min6 mou5 saai3 meng6, jiu3 jap6 cin2 laa3.)
eng:(in a game) You are all out of lives. You must insert coins (to continue).
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yue:生存嘅時間；#壽命
eng:lifetime; the duration of one's life
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yue:長命 (coeng4 meng6)
eng:(of people) long-lived
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yue:#短命 (dyun2 meng6)
eng:(of people) short-lived
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yue:#嫌命長 (jim4 meng6 coeng4)
eng:weary of one's long life; literally: tired of living too long; used to describe someone who is reckless
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yue:醫生話我仲有十年命。 (ji1 sang1 waa6 ngo5 zung6 jau5 sap6 nin4 meng6)
eng:Doctors say I still have ten years to live.
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yue:#命運；一早注定嘅未來
eng:fate; one's predetermined future
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yue:#認命 (jing6 meng6)
eng:to accept one's fate
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yue:我條命整定係要捱。 (ngo5 tiu4 meng6 zing2 ding6 hai6 jiu3 ngaai4.)
eng:It is my fate that I have to go through hardships.

(pos:語素)
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yue:#命（meng6）嘅讀書音，通常用喺配詞
eng:life; fate; the literary pronunciation for 命 meng6, usually used in compounds
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yue:#性命 (sing3 ming6)
eng:life; lives
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yue:#生命 (sang1 ming6)
eng:life; one's lifetime
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yue:#命運 (ming6 wan6)
eng:fate
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yue:#天命 (tin1 ming6)
eng:destiny
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yue:#命案 (ming6 on3)
eng:a murder
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yue:#時也命也 (si4 jaa5 ming6 jaa5)
eng:(a saying) It is timing. It is fate.
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yue:#命令；上級叫下屬做嘢
eng:to order; to command; order; instruction
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yue:#命令 (ming6 ling6)
eng:order; instruction; to order
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yue:奉命行事 (fung6 ming6 hang4 si6)
eng:to follow the order and act
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yue:指派名號、職位
eng:to assign a title; to entitle
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yue:#命名 (ming6 ming4)
eng:to name