使命 – Vocabulary details

使し命めい

Meanings

Noun

1. mission; errand

2. task; duty; obligation

Kanji used

使

use (something physical)

命

continued existence

Pitch accent

し

めい

Used in: 2296

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 (3 in total)

彼かれは重じゅう大だいな使し命めいを任まかされた。

He was given an important mission.

私わたしは重じゅう大だい使し命めいをおびている。

I am charged with an important mission.

兵へい士したちの使し命めいはその橋はしを破は壊かいすることだった。