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  *生* | 生* | *生
to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽)
HSK 2
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  *活* | 活* | *活
to live / alive / living / work / workmanship
HSK 3
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  *住* | 住* | *住
to live; to reside; to stay / to stop; to cease / (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state)
HSK 1
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
(TV, radio) to broadcast live / live broadcast / (Internet) to livestream / (agriculture) direct seeding
HSK 3
to enjoy / to live it up / pleasure / CL: 種|种
HSK 5
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  *過* | 過* | *過
to cross / to go over / to pass (time) / to celebrate (a holiday) / to live / to get along / excessively / too-
HSK 1
to drop in / to visit / to lock a door / (of a shop) to close / to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
HSK 4
(idiom) to live to be a hundred years old (often used as a blessing or wish for longevity)
(idiom) with real guns and live ammunition; (fig.) for real (involving genuine action rather than rehearsal, simulation or theory); (coll.) to have actual sex; to go all the way
to reside / to dwell / to live in a place / resident in
HSK 4
live-in son-in-law; husband living with the wife's family
to live somewhere as a visitor; to stay with sb as a guest; to sojourn
HSK 7-9
to be away from home; to live away from one's family
(coll.) to serve time in prison; (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals)
on-the-spot live broadcast
to save on food and clothing (idiom); to live frugally
HSK 7-9
housekeeper who looks after old people with no children or whose children do not live with them
longevity / long-lived
HSK 5
FPV drone; drone piloted through a live video feed
lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later
practice / to put into practice / to live up to (a promise) / to carry out (a project)
HSK 6
to live up to
to live in the moment (idiom) / to live every day as if it were one's last / to enjoy while one can
to live comfortably; to enjoy a happy life
to stay at / to live in (temporarily)
live betting
to live together / to cohabit
Turkic people, who lived across the Eurasian continent; (esp.) the Göktürks of medieval Inner Asia
to be so in pain as to not want to live / to be so grieved as to wish one were dead
(idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved
to live off a woman
to fail to live up (to expectations) / unworthy (of trust) / to let down / to betray (hopes) / to disappoint
HSK 7-9
vivid; lively / (of food ingredients) live or fresh
HSK 7-9
to live to the (ripe) age of
Shide, Tang Buddhist poet who lived at the Guoqing Temple on Mt Tiantai 天台山
firing line (battle) / live electrical wire
to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
to live as widow / to observe widowhood
to break up / to divide property and live apart / to start on a new (path)
to enjoy the present (idiom); to live happily with no thought for the future / make merry while you can / carpe diem
(coll.) to live with and depend on one's parents even upon reaching adulthood
to live far away from one's native place / to reside in a foreign country
to settle down / to live peacefully
to live / to reside
to live without purpose
to live in peace and work happily (idiom)
to separate and live apart / division of a large family into smaller groups
to cut in line / to jump a queue / to live on a rural community (during the Cultural Revolution)
trial marriage / to live together before deciding whether to marry
to live in harmony / to get along with each other
the Jade Hare (legendary rabbit said to live in the Moon) / the Moon
Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom) / Long may you live!
(idiom) (of enemies) cannot live under the same sky; absolutely irreconcilable
the name does not reflect the reality (idiom); more in name than in fact / Reality does not live up to the name. / Excellent theory, but the practice does not bear it out.
to live an exhausting journey
to live together (in a large group or flock)
to broadcast live from the scene / live relay
lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom) / fig. not to live up to one's promises
lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well
to live or die / to exist or perish
(neologism c. 2006) if you live long enough, you'll see everything / Just incredible!
live poultry
lit. light furs and stout horses / fig. to live in luxury
to be reborn / to live in paradise (Buddhism) / to die / (after) one's death
live pig; pig on the hoof
to live under the same roof (of different generations)
living body / live specimen
(idiom) to live together in harmony
live (e.g. broadcast or recording) / what is actually happening / scene / the real situation
HSK 7-9
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
to harmonize / to live in harmony
to live alone / to live a solitary existence
live recording
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  *處* | 處* | *處
to reside / to live / to dwell / to be in / to be situated at / to stay / to get along with / to be in a position of / to deal with / to discipline / to punish
live vlogger / live-streamer
lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom); fig. As you sow, so shall you reap. / One must live with the consequences of one's actions. / You've made your bed, now must lie on it.
to go to town / to enter a big city (to live or work)
real scene (not set up or posed) / real location (not a film studio set or theater) / live action (not animation)
Peng Zu (legendary figure of Taoism who lived 800 years)
live target / target (of criticism etc)
to live in plenty without appreciating it (idiom); not to know when one is well off
to live one's life / to pass one's days / to get along
HSK 7-9
spring dream / short-lived illusion / erotic dream
to live (somewhere) for free
lit. if moved to a new location, a tree will die, but a person will live (idiom) / fig. human beings, unlike trees, thrive on change
to live in a cave / (of animals) to be of burrowing habit
to slap sb's face / to slap one's own face / fig. to fail to live up to a boast
opportunity to live; hope of success / vigor; vitality
HSK 7-9
to die young / short-lived
people who live and make a living on boats
typhoon shelter (a cove where boats shelter from strong winds and rough seas, esp. in Hong Kong) / (attributive) typhoon shelter-style, a cooking method associated with those who lived on boats in the coves, where crab, prawn or other meat is fried and flavored with spices and black beans
lit. to eat from government coffers / to serve as a government employee / to live off government money
to live like a prince (idiom)
to seek survival / to possess the will to live
lit. the Mount Zhongnan shortcut (idiom) / fig. shortcut to a high-flying career; easy route to success (an allusion to the Tang Dynasty story of 盧藏用|卢藏用, who lived like a hermit on Mt. Zhongnan in order to gain a reputation for wisdom, which he then used to gain a position in the Imperial Court)
to live one's life / to make a living
to inhabit; to live in (forests, mountains or wetlands etc)
(idiom) (of a married couple) to live together until old age; to remain lifelong companions

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