要命 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. yàomìng ㄧㄠˋ ㄇㄧㄥˋ to cause sb's death extremely terribly (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance Character by character 要(yào)want 命(mìng)life A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT