临危受命

(idiom) to take on a leadership role at a time of crisis

to face / to overlook / to arrive / to be (just) about to / just before

dying (from illness) / facing death / on one's deathbed

surname Wei

danger / to endanger / Taiwan pr. [wei2]

to receive / to accept / to suffer / subjected to / to bear / to stand / pleasant / (passive marker)

ordained or appointed to a post / to benefit from counsel

life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc