活 (huó)
to live; alive; living; work; activity
How 活 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 活
- Simplified
- 活 (unchanged)
Components
- 氵 water
- 舌 tongue
Common words using 活
- 活動 huódòng
- to exercise; to move about; to operate
- 生活 shēnghuó
- life; activity; to live
- 幹活 gànhuó
- to work; to be employed; manual labor
- 復活 fùhuó
- resurrection
- 忙活 mánghuo
- to be really busy; pressing business
- 活佛 huófó
- Living Buddha; title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century
- 活力 huólì
- energy; vitality; vigor
- 活活 huóhuó
- while still alive
- 活潑 huópo
- lively; vivacious; brisk
- 活該 huógāi
- (coll.) serve sb right; deservedly; ought
- 活躍 huóyuè
- active; vigorous
- 激活 jīhuó
- to activate
活 in a sentence
台灣的生活很方便，到處都有便利商店。
Táiwān de shēnghuó hěn fāngbiàn, dàochù dōu yǒu biànlì shāngdiàn.
“Life in Taiwan is very convenient; there are convenience stores everywhere.”
How common is 活?
活 is the 219th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 57.7% of all running text.
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