使命 shǐmìng▶ Misión

Stroke order

使命 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

• 使 — 8 strokes
• 命 — 8 strokes

Senses

1. mission
2. long-term task to which one devotes oneself
3. a calling

Related words

• 任命Cita; nombramiento
• 命名llamar; nominar
• 性命vida
• 拼命Dar lo mejor de mí
• 致使causa
• 要命matar, extremadamente

使命 is pronounced shǐmìng and means “Misión”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 使命 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.