活
huó HSK2

live

活 huó
live adjective
to live, stay alive, or be in a living state

鱼在水里才能活。

yú zài shuǐ lǐ cái néng huó.

Fish can only live in water.

work particle
manual labor, a job, or the quality of workmanship

他干起活来比谁都快，从不偷懒。

tā gàn qǐ huó lái bǐ shéi dōu kuài, cóng​bù tōu​lǎn.

He works faster than anyone and never slacks off.

flexible adjective
flexible, adaptable, or not fixed; capable of change depending on the situation

方法是活的，我们要根据实际情况调整。

fāng​fǎ shì huó de, wǒ​men yào gēn​jù shí​jì qíng​kuàng tiáo​zhěng.

Methods are flexible; we should adjust them according to the actual situation.

Frequency
Character
Written text
219th most common 981.3 per million
Movie subtitles
216th most common 816.3 per million appears in 96% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
343.1 per million appears in 65% of films
Written text
158.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+6D3B

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)