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活

huó

HSK 4 Character

What 活 means

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

Example sentences

• 活该。
  Huógāi.
  You reap what you sow.
• 生活。
  My life.
• 干活吧。
  Let's get to work.
• 我活该。
  I deserved that.
• 干活慢点。
  Work slowly.
• 我想活着。
  I want to live.

Words starting with 活

• 活动huó dòngto exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc); movable…
• 活泼huó polively; vivacious; brisk
• 活跃huó yuèactive; lively; excited
• 活力huó lìenergy; vitality; vigor
• 活该huó gāi(colloquial) serve sb right; deservedly; ought
• 活儿huó rwork; (lots of) things to do
• 活生生huó shēng shēngreal (people); living (artist); while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
• 活活huó huówhile still alive; simply; totally
• 活人huó rénliving person
• 活佛huó fóLiving Buddha; title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century
• 活像huó xiàngto look exactly like; to be the spitting image of
• 活塞huó sāipiston
• 活性huó xìng(chemistry) activity; active; activated
• 活计huó jìhandicraft; needlework; work
• 活用huó yòngto apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly; to use a word flexibly…
• 活埋huó máito bury alive
• 活路huó lùthrough road; way out; way to survive
• 活命huó mìnglife; to survive; to save a life
• 活蹦乱跳huó bèng luàn tiàoto leap and frisk about (idiom); lively; healthy and active
• 活字huó zìmovable type
• 活脱脱huó tuō tuōremarkably alike
• 活灵活现huó líng huó xiànliving spirit, living image (idiom); true to life; vivid and realistic
• 活捉huó zhuōto capture alive
• 活宝huó bǎobuffoon; clown; ridiculous person

Words containing 活

• 生活shēng huóto live; life; livelihood
• 灵活líng huóflexible; nimble; agile
• 快活kuài huohappy; cheerful
• 复活fù huóto revive; (lit. and fig.) to come back to life; (religion) resurrection
• 干活gàn huóto work; to be employed
• 生活方式shēng huó fāng shìway of life; lifestyle
• 生活费shēng huó fèicost of living; living expenses; alimony
• 性生活xìng shēng huósex life
• 养活yǎng huoto provide for; to keep (animals, a family etc); to raise animals
• 死活sǐ huólife or death; fate; no matter what
• 鲜活xiān huóvivid; lively; (of food ingredients) live or fresh
• 激活jī huóto activate
• 忙活máng huoto be really busy; pressing business
• 存活cún huóto survive (a serious accident); survival
• 体育活动tǐ yù huó dòngsports; sporting activity
• 农活nóng huófarm work
• 灵活性líng huó xìngflexibility
• 死去活来sǐ qù huó láito hover between life and death (idiom); to suffer terribly; within an inch of one's life
• 私生活sī shēng huóprivate life
• 社会活动shè huì huó dòngsocial activity
• 复活节Fù huó jiéEaster
• 过活guò huóto live one's life; to make a living
• 绝活jué huóspecialty; unique skill
• 救活jiù huóto bring back to life

Characters built on 舌

These share the phonetic component 舌 (shé), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 括kuò(bound form) to tie up; to tighten up; (bound form) to include; to comprise…
• 蛞kuòused in 蛞蝼; used in 蛞蝓
• 聒guōraucous; clamor; unpleasantly noisy

Characters that look like 活

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words
• 治zhìto rule; to govern; to manage
• 涌yǒngto well up; to gush forth; to surge
• 浩hàogrand; vast (water)
• 洼wādepression; low-lying area; low-lying; sunken
• 沽gūto buy; to sell

Sounds the same

Read huó, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 和to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water; Taiwan pr. huò
• 佸meet