活 huó

1. huó adjective alive; living
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '活' 1 huó 2)
2. huó verb to live; to exist; to survive
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '活' 1 huó 1; HSK '活'; Unihan '活')
3. huó noun work
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '活' 2 huó 1; HSK '活')
4. huó adjective active; lively; vivid
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '活' 1 huó 5; HSK '活'; Unihan '活')
5. huó verb to save; to keep alive
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD '活' 1 huó 3)
6. huó adjective agile; flexible
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '活' 1 huó 4)
7. huó adverb exactly
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '活' 1 huó 6)
8. huó noun product; workmanship
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CCD '活' 2 huó 2)

Contained in

• 活鱼(活魚) fresh fish; living fish
• 活泛 flexible; adaptable
• 针线活儿(針線活兒) needlework; working for a living as a needleworker
• 生活方式 way of life; lifestyle ; lifestyle
• 死活 life or death; fate; no matter what; anyway; for the life of me
• 活血 to improve blood circulation
• 太阳活动(太陽活動) sunspot activity; solar variation
• 火山活动(火山活動) volcanic activity; volcanism
• 活期资金(活期資金) funds on call; invested sum that can be cashed
• 活宝(活寶) buffoon; clown; ridiculous person
• 活佛 Living Buddha
• 活蹦乱跳(活蹦亂跳) to leap and frisk about; lively; healthy and active
• 饭后百步走，活到九十九(飯後百步走，活到九十九) walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life
• 干活儿(幹活兒) to work; to do manual labor
• 政治活动(政治活動) political movement
• 活塞 a piston; a valve
• 农事活动(農事活動) agricultural activities
• 文康活动(文康活動) cultural and recreational activities
• 性生活 sex life
• 活龙活现(活龍活現) lifelike in spirit and image
• 花活 trick; deception
• 生活费(生活費) cost of living; living expenses; alimony
• 活罪 suffering; hardship; living hell
• 生活阔绰(生活闊綽) a flashy lifestyle; to live it up
• 票活 to work as amateur for no pay
• 生活污水 domestic sewage
• 灵活的方法(靈活的方法) a flexible method
• 活动中心(活動中心) activity center
• 苦活儿(苦活兒) hard work
• 活血止痛 to invigorate blood circulation and alleviate pain
• 日常生活 everyday life; daily life; routine life
• 活期存款 demand deposit
• 鲜活(鮮活) live and or fresh
• 生活风格(生活風格) lifestyle
• 公益活动(公益活動) charity event; public service activities
• 活体(活體) living body; live specimen
• 活灵活现(活靈活現) lifelike in spirit and image
• 舱外活动(艙外活動) extravehicular activity (outside space vehicle); EVA
• 活期 current
• 生活垃圾 domestic garbage
• 活性剂(活性劑) reagent
• 经济活动(經濟活動) economic activity
• 生活必需品 life's necessities
• 夜生活 night life
• 审美活动(審美活動) appreciating the arts; esthetic activity
• 活火山 active volcano
• 活版印刷 printing with movable type; typesetting
• 绝活(絕活) specialty
• 复活赛(復活賽) repechage (supplementary qualifying round in sports)
• 饭后一支烟，赛过活神仙(飯後一支煙，賽過活神仙) have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals

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• 卷七十二　列傳第十:　婁室子:活女 謀衍 仲(本名石古乃)，族子:海里 銀朮可子:彀英(本名撻懶) 母弟:麻吉(子:沃側) 弟:拔離速 習古乃 Volume 72 Biographies 10: Lou Shi and son: Huonu, Mou Yan, Zhong (formerly named Shigunai)，descendant: Haili, Yin Paike and son: Gou Ying (formerly named Talan), Mu younger brother: Maji (son: Woce), younger brother: Ba Lisu, Xi Gunai History of Jin 金史 — count: 19
• 卷三十五 志第十一 曆五 Volume 35 Treatises 11: Calendar 5 History of Ming 明史 — count: 11
• 第二十六回 Chapter 26 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 11
• 卷一 　本紀第一:　世紀 Volume 1 Annals 1: Ancenstral Records History of Jin 金史 — count: 11
• 卷六十七　列傳第五:　石顯 桓赧弟:散達 烏春附:溫敦蒲刺 臘醅弟麻產 鈍恩 留可 阿疏 奚王回離保 Volume 67 Biographies 5: Shi Xian, Huan Nan and younger brother: Sanda, Wu Chun and relative: Wendun Puci, Lapei dimachan, Dun En, Liu Ke, A Shu, Xiwang Huilibao History of Jin 金史 — count: 11
• 第二十五回 Chapter 25 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 10
• 第三十八回 Chapter 38 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 8
• 卷六十三　表第一:　世表 Volume 63 Tables 1: Lineage History of Liao 遼史 — count: 7
• 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
• 卷一百九十九下 列傳第一百四十九下: 北狄 Volume 199 Biographies 149: Northern Peoples Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 7

Collocations

• 欲活 (欲活) 會項伯欲活張良 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖本紀》 Annals of Gao Zu — count: 12
• 乞活 (乞活) 叩头乞活 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷八十二下 方術列傳 Volume 82b: Biographies of Alchemists 2 — count: 12
• 苟活 (苟活) 苟活而不變 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷三十七 季布欒布田叔傳 Volume 37: Ji Bu, Luan Bu and Tian Shu — count: 7
• 能活 (能活) 必能活天下者 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十四　詮言訓 Chapter 14: Explanation of Sayings — count: 5
• 济活 (濟活) 皆為憙所濟活 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十六 伏侯宋蔡馮趙牟韋列傳 Volume 26: Biographies of Fu, Hou, Song, Cai, Feng, Zhao, Mou, Wei — count: 5
• 遂活 (遂活) 遂活 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第十七 五行五 射妖 龍蛇孽 馬禍 人痾 人化 死復生 疫 投蜺 Volume 107: Five Elements Part Five — count: 5
• 求活 (求活) 不苟求活 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷四 魏書四 三少帝紀 Volume 4: Book of Wei 4 - Annals of the three young emperors — count: 5
• 活邪 (活邪) 寧尚須汝乳而活邪 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《滑稽列傳》 Biographies of Jesters — count: 5
• 活千 (活千) 吾聞活千人者有封子孫 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十八 元后傳 Volume 98: Wang Zhengjun — count: 5
• 闻活 (聞活) 吾聞活千人者有封子孫 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十八 元后傳 Volume 98: Wang Zhengjun — count: 4