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生活

shēng huó

HSK 4 2-character word

What 生活 means

1. to live
2. life
3. livelihood

The characters in 生活

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 活huóto live; alive; living

Example sentences

• 生活。
  My life.
• 生活第一！
  Life first!
• 他生活朴素。
  Tā shēnghuó pǔsù.
  He lived a simple life.
• 他生活很忙。
  He lived a busy life.
• 他独自生活。
  He lives by himself.
• 生活怎幺样？
  How's life?

Words starting with 生活

• 生活方式shēng huó fāng shìway of life; lifestyle
• 生活费shēng huó fèicost of living; living expenses; alimony
• 生活必需品shēng huó bì xū pǐnlife's necessities
• 生活美学shēng huó měi xuéappreciation of the finer things in life
• 生活设施shēng huó shè shīliving facilities
• 生活资料shēng huó zī liàoconsumer goods; means of livelihood; means of subsistence
• 生活水平shēng huó shuǐ píngliving standards
• 生活教育shēng huó jiào yù(Taiwan) life skills education; education in practical, emotional, social and moral…
• 生活作风shēng huó zuò fēngbehavior; conduct
• 生活馆shēng huó guǎnliving museum
• 生活污水shēng huó wū shuǐdomestic wastewater; domestic sewage
• 生活垃圾shēng huó lā jīdomestic garbage

Words containing 生活

• 性生活xìng shēng huósex life
• 私生活sī shēng huóprivate life
• 做生活zuò shēng huóto work; to do manual labor
• 维持生活wéi chí shēng huóto subsist; to eke out a living; to keep body and soul together
• 政治生活zhèng zhì shēng huópolitical life
• 讨生活tǎo shēng huóto eke out a living; to live from hand to mouth; to drift aimlessly
• 精神生活jīng shén shēng huóspiritual or moral life
• 品味生活pǐn wèi shēng huóto appreciate life
• 夜生活yè shēng huónight life
• 慢生活màn shēng huóslow living
• 铁窗生活tiě chuāng shēng huótime served in prison; prison life
• 寄生生活jì shēng shēng huóparasitic life (of an organism); (fig.) parasitic lifestyle (of a person)
• 反美是工作赴美是生活fǎn Měi shì gōng zuò fù Měi shì shēng huóbeing anti-American is the job, but life is in America…