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活该

huó gāi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 活該

活该 (huó gāi) means "(coll.) serve sb right; deservedly; ought". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 活该 means

1. colloquialserve sb right
2. deservedly
3. ought
4. should

The characters in 活该

• 活huóto live; alive; living
• 该gāishould; ought to; probably

Example sentences

• 活该。
  Huógāi.
  You reap what you sow.
• 我活该。
  I deserved that.

Where 活该 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · huò–huǒ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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