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  *活* | 活* | *活
to live / alive / living / work / workmanship
HSK 3
to exercise; to move about; to work out / shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc) / movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc) / (volcanic, seismic, economic etc) activity / (outdoor etc) activity; event; (political) campaign; (military) maneuver (CL:項|项) / to use personal influence, connections, bribes etc
HSK 2
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
energy / vitality / vigor / vital force
HSK 5
happy / cheerful
HSK 5
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
lively / vivacious / brisk / active / (chemistry) reactive
HSK 5
to provide for / to keep (animals, a family etc) / to raise animals / to feed and clothe / support / the necessities of life / to give birth
HSK 7-9
flexible / nimble / agile
HSK 6
to be really busy / pressing business
HSK 7-9
living animals
active / lively / excited / to enliven / to brighten up
HSK 6
charity event / public service activities
social activity
(banking) current (account) / checking (account) / demand (deposit etc)
HSK 7-9
LOHAS (lifestyles of health and sustainability)
farm work
sex life
funds on call / invested sum that can be cashed
to survive (a serious accident) / survival
erhua variant of 幹活|干活
HSK 2
alive
activist
a selfless, helpful person, like the model citizen Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋 (often used to refer to sb in a joking or teasing way)
work / (lots of) things to do
HSK 7-9
(coll.) serve sb right / deservedly / ought / should
HSK 7-9
through road / way out / way to survive / means of subsistence
labor / physical work
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
to appreciate life
to stay at home while one's husband is away / grass widow
(med.) survival rate / (med.) recovery rate
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
living standards
to tire oneself out through overwork / to work oneself to death
piston
a living Buddha / fig. compassionate person / saint
active member; activist
to support one's family (idiom)
agricultural activities
night life
repechage (supplementary qualifying round in sports)
to work; to be employed
farm work
place for activities (playground, event venue etc)
survival rate / rate of success
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
to go through hell for the sake of keeping up appearances (idiom)
domestic garbage
household chore
live poultry
arrogant appearance / smug appearance / to act condescending / to put on airs
sunspot activity / solar variation
Easter
to come back to life (after death)
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
noose / running knot
demand deposit (abbr. for 活期存款)
buffoon / clown / ridiculous person
while still alive / simply / totally
way of life / lifestyle
to live one's life / to make a living
to survive
to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly / to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective)
manipulation (e.g. ball handling in sport) / hand job
remarkably alike
(of a flower) vividly colorful and fragrant / (of a woman) captivating; charming / (of writing or a painting etc) lifelike; vivid
lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom) / fig. vigorous and lively
to activate
HSK 7-9
to enliven / to invigorate / to revitalize
what the hell; preposterous
live target / target (of criticism etc)
private life
sports / sporting activity
better a bad life than a good death (idiom)
economic activity
espionage / spying
living person
movable type
consumer goods / means of livelihood / means of subsistence / documents relating to sb's life
vivid; lively / (of food ingredients) live or fresh
HSK 7-9
seismic zone / earthquake belt
life or death / fate / no matter what / anyway / for the life of me
Living Buddha / title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century
to leap and frisk about (idiom); lively / healthy and active
to capture alive
a slip-knot / a noose
regardless of life or death (idiom)
mobility / motility
handicraft / needlework / work
living museum
political life
prefabricated building / prefab / mobile home / caravan / trailer
(chemistry) activity / active / activated
life's necessities
half dead / more dead than alive
live cargo
(medicine) vital capacity
active volcano
see 活像

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