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HSK
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
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
erhua variant of 幹活|干活
HSK 2
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  *活* | 活* | *活
to live / alive / living / work / workmanship
HSK 3
energy / vitality / vigor / vital force
HSK 5
happy / cheerful
HSK 5
lively / vivacious / brisk / active / (chemistry) reactive
HSK 5
flexible / nimble / agile
HSK 6
active / lively / excited / to enliven / to brighten up
HSK 6
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
to activate
HSK 7-9
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
(banking) current (account) / checking (account) / demand (deposit etc)
HSK 7-9
vivid; lively / (of food ingredients) live or fresh
HSK 7-9
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
to be really busy / pressing business
HSK 7-9
(coll.) serve sb right / deservedly / ought / should
HSK 7-9
work / (lots of) things to do
HSK 7-9
walking dictionary / well-informed person
to subsist / to eke out a living / to keep body and soul together
economic activity
odd jobs
lit. such a fool as to die from holding in one's pee (idiom) / fig. unable to solve a problem due to the inflexibility of one's thinking
calendar of events
to enliven / to invigorate / to revitalize
(chemistry) activity / active / activated
needlework / working for a living as a needleworker
activation
to survive (a serious accident) / survival
living museum
appreciation of the finer things in life
through road / way out / way to survive / means of subsistence
labor / physical work
extravehicular activity (outside space vehicle) / EVA
to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker) / life of a group of stones in Go 圍棋|围棋
to improve blood circulation (Chinese medicine)
flexible / adaptable
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
buffoon / clown / ridiculous person
living body / live specimen
free time (between organized activities)
farm work
Living Buddha / title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century
living animals
living person
to live without dignity; to barely sustain oneself
to support one's family (idiom)
piston
handicraft / needlework / work
to bury alive
to act recklessly (idiom)
to capture alive
agricultural activities
to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly / to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective)
life or death / fate / no matter what / anyway / for the life of me
lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom) / fig. vigorous and lively
to revitalize (assets, resources etc)
remarkably alike
to leap and frisk about (idiom); lively / healthy and active
zombie
life's necessities
to look exactly like / to be the spitting image of
(medicine) vital capacity
a slip-knot / a noose
to bring back to life
while still alive / simply / totally
specialty / unique skill
heavy work
half dead / more dead than alive
to tire oneself out through overwork / to work oneself to death
to work; to be employed
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
to finish a job on time / to produce the goods
typography / movable type
one's utmost / (to fight or work) desperately hard / to put up a life or death struggle / at all costs
sliding bevel (to measure angles)
flaming fire / flames
to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically
bitter sufferings; great hardships
spirited atmosphere
see 活像
what the hell; preposterous
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
alive
valve
valve
arrogant appearance / smug appearance / to act condescending / to put on airs
surfactant
political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s)
to survive
printing with movable type / typesetting
sex life
to survive / to keep on living
private life
LOHAS (lifestyles of health and sustainability)
night life
live cargo
activated carbon
activity center / CL: 處|处

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