(huó) - to live, to be alive; lively in Mandarin
huóTraditional: 活
Translation
to live, to be alive; lively
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the water radical and a phonetic element, originally the sound of flowing water and by extension vitality. It means to live or be alive.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 氵 (water) + 舌 (shé, phonetic)
Stroke order
活
Examples
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He is still alive.
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This fish is alive.
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People should live well.
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She lives very happily.
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Flowers need water to live.
活 (huó) means to live, to be alive, and as an adjective lively or living. It contrasts with 死, to die.
Where this fits
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 活.
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