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

• 活体组织检查(活體組織檢查) biopsy
• 生龙活虎(生龍活虎) lively dragon and animated tiger; vigorous and lively
• 活用 to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly; to use a word flexibly
• 干活(幹活) to work; to be employed
• 要死不活 half dead; more dead than alive
• 你死我活 you die, I live; irreconcilable adversaries; two parties cannot coexist
• 生活垃圾 domestic garbage
• 活分 nimble
• 复活节(復活節) Easter
• 活泛 flexible; adaptable
• 活血止痛 to invigorate blood circulation and alleviate pain
• 寄生生活 parasitism; parasitic life-style
• 金属活字(金屬活字) metal movable type
• 活动家(活動家) activist
• 颠覆活动(顛覆活動) subversion
• 活化分析 activation analysis
• 地震活动带(地震活動帶) seismic zone; earthquake belt
• 变活(變活) to come to life (by magic)
• 活禽 poultry; live fowl
• 农事活动(農事活動) agricultural activities
• 鲜活(鮮活) live and or fresh
• 针线活(針線活) to make a living by sewing
• 活动曲尺(活動曲尺) sliding bevel (to measure angles)
• 鲜活货物(鮮活貨物) live cargo
• 生活必需品 life's necessities
• 爱得死去活来(愛得死去活來) to be madly in love
• 活动能力(活動能力) mobility; motility
• 贫贱生活(貧賤生活) a poor and humbe life
• 包活 job paid according to the amount of work done; contract work
• 放射性活度 radioactivity
• 心理活动(心理活動) a mental process
• 活捉 to capture [alive]
• 活埋 to bury alive
• 社会活动(社會活動) social activity
• 生活美学(生活美學) appreciation of the finer things in life
• 活页(活頁) papers
• 活字典 walking dictionary; well-informed person
• 活化石 living fossil
• 活该(活該) to serve someone right; to deserve
• 生活型态(生活型態) lifestyle
• 活脱(活脫) remarkably alike
• 活血 to improve blood circulation
• 活受罪 to suffer hardship
• 复活赛(復活賽) repechage (supplementary qualifying round in sports)
• 做活儿(做活兒) to work for a living
• 全活 to preserve; to keep alive
• 活靶子 live target; target (of criticism etc)
• 神气活现(神氣活現) arrogant appearance; smug appearance; to act condescending; to put on airs
• 票活 to work as amateur for no pay
• 生活作风(生活作風) behavior; conduct

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活字

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Truncated for common words

• 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
• 第二十六回 Chapter 26 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 11
• 卷三十五 志第十一 曆五 Volume 35 Treatises 11: Calendar 5 History of Ming 明史 — 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
• 卷一 　本紀第一:　世紀 Volume 1 Annals 1: Ancenstral Records 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
• 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
• 卷六十三　表第一:　世表 Volume 63 Tables 1: Lineage History of Liao 遼史 — 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 请活 (請活) 請活之 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《趙世家》 House of Zhao — count: 4