huó

to live; alive; living

HSK 4 #219

Character data

HSK 4
Frequency 219th character
Radical ⽔ (85.6)
Strokes 9
Index # 1672

Definitions

活 huó
  1. 1. to live
  2. 2. alive
  3. 3. living
  4. 4. work
  5. 5. workmanship

Stroke order

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Words containing 活

Word Meaning
to live; life; livelihood
activity; to move about; to exercise
lively; active; vivacious
active; lively; to enliven
flexible; agile; nimble
erhua variant of gàn huó
energy; vitality; vigor
to revive; (lit. and fig.) to come back to life
(coll.) serve sb right; deservedly; ought
happy; cheerful
to work; to be employed
work; (lots of) things to do
sex life
to activate
real (people); living (artist)
survival; to survive (a serious accident)
to survive; to save a life; to scrape a living
to provide for; support; to keep (animals, a family etc)
Easter
private life
living person
simply; while still alive; totally
no matter what; anyway; for the life of me
to bring back to life
to bury alive
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