活
HSK 3freq #556
Meanings
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- 1.to live
- 2.alive
- 3.living
- 4.work
- 5.workmanship
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Wiktionary
- 1.to live; to exist
- 2.life; existence
- 3.to make live; to provide food for
- 4.having life; live
- 5.lively; vivid
- 6.flexible; movable; moving; nimble; agile
- 7.flexible; adaptable; fluid
- 8.job; work
- 9.act of performance
- 10.act of sexual intercourse
- 11.product; produce
- 12.simply; exactly
- 13.alive; living; in a living state
- 14.to save (a person's life)
- 15.so; how; what
- 16.awful; unable to handle (used after either 會 /会 or 𣍐 /𫧃 to mean the same thing)
- 17.only used in 活活 (guōguō)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *koːd, *ɡoːd): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 𠯑 (OC *ɡroːd). The 𠯑 later transformed into 舌; a conservative variant is 𣴠. Schuessler (2007) proposes possible Austroasiatic etymology; compare Wa-Lawa-Bulang *gɑs "alive (of plants)" & Aslian *gɔs "to live"
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
幹活吧。
Let's get to work.
湯姆更活躍。
Tom is more active.
她活了很久。
She lived for a long time.
她活了很久。
She lived a long life.
你不能這樣活。
You can't live like this.
這一個還活著。
This one's still alive.
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