活
huó HSK2

live

活 huó
to live verb
to live; to exist; to survive

它们需要水才能活。

tā​men xū​yào shuǐ cái​néng huó.

They need water to survive.

flexible adjective
flexible; nimble; vivid; lively; not rigid

您真是把科学讲活了。

nín zhēn​shi bǎ kē​xué jiǎng huó le.

You really make science come alive.

alive adjective
alive; living; in a living state

语言是活的，在变。

yǔ​yán shì huó de, zài biàn.

Language is alive and changing.

她真的还活着！

tā zhēn​de hái huó zhe!

She is really alive!

work noun
work; task; physical labor; manual job

他们不喜欢干活。

tā​men bù xǐ​huan gàn huó.

They don't like to work.

to save verbparticle
to save a life; to keep someone alive; to provide a livelihood
movable verbadjective
movable; moving; not fixed; (of interest rates, etc.) floating or current
simply nounadverb
simply; exactly; used to emphasize a state such as in "simply a living hell" or "exactly like"
while alive verbadverb
while still alive; describing an action performed on a living subject (e.g. 活捉 huó​zhuō live capture, 活埋 huó​mái live burial)
product
product; manufactured goods; workmanship

Cross-References

Antonym

Classifier

Has erhua variant

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
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)