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活泼

huó po

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 活潑

活泼 (huó po) means "lively / vivacious". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 活泼 means

1. lively
2. vivacious
3. brisk
4. active
5. chemistryreactive

The characters in 活泼

• 活huóto live; alive; living
• 泼pōto splash; to spill; rough and coarse

Example sentences

• 他有点活泼。
  Tā yǒudiǎn huópo.
  He's a bit energetic.
• 克莱恩女士虽已至耄耋之年，但仍然很活泼。
  Kèlái ēn nǚshì suī yǐ zhì màodiézhīnián, dàn réngrán hěn huópo.
  Although Mrs Crane is at her eighties，she is still vivacious.

Where 活泼 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Sports & leisure (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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