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HSK
to exercise / to move about / to operate / to use connections (personal influence) / loose / shaky / active / movable / activity / campaign / maneuver / behavior / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 2
to live / life / livelihood
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
happy / cheerful
HSK 5
energy / vitality / vigor / vital force
HSK 5
lively / vivacious / brisk / active / (chemistry) reactive
HSK 5
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
active / lively / excited / to enliven / to brighten up
HSK 6
flexible / nimble / agile
HSK 6
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
vivid; lively / (of food ingredients) live or fresh
HSK 7-9
(banking) current (account) / checking (account) / demand (deposit etc)
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
work / (lots of) things to do
HSK 7-9
to activate
HSK 7-9
(coll.) serve sb right / deservedly / ought / should
HSK 7-9
to be really busy / pressing business
HSK 7-9
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
way of life / lifestyle
real (people) / living (artist) / while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
to improve blood circulation (Chinese medicine)
while still alive / simply / totally
specialty / unique skill
to live one's life / to make a living
living person
through road / way out / way to survive / means of subsistence
labor / physical work
social activity
survival rate / rate of success
sex life
(of a flower) vividly colorful and fragrant / (of a woman) captivating; charming / (of writing or a painting etc) lifelike; vivid
impossible to make a living
movable type
fresh fish / living fish
household chore
flexibility
to bring back to life
Living Buddha / title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century
to work / to do manual labor
spirited atmosphere
to survive (a serious accident) / survival
activated carbon
a god living in our midst (sb who can predict the future like a prophet or who leads a life without constraints)
to tire oneself out through overwork / to work oneself to death
a slip-knot / a noose
to hover between life and death (idiom) / to suffer terribly / within an inch of one's life
reagent (chemistry)
remarkably alike
(med.) survival rate / (med.) recovery rate
(chemistry) activity / active / activated
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
activation
flexible / adaptable
half dead / more dead than alive
live target / target (of criticism etc)
active volcano
to work; to be employed
piston / valve
farm work
handicraft / needlework / work
economic activity
night life
arrogant appearance / smug appearance / to act condescending / to put on airs
lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom) / fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation
life or death / fate / no matter what / anyway / for the life of me
to leap and frisk about (idiom); lively / healthy and active
to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly / to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective)
buffoon / clown / ridiculous person
to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically
activist
a living Buddha / fig. compassionate person / saint
spiritual or moral life
to creatively combine learning with usage / to learn and apply pragmatically
alive
to stay at home while one's husband is away / grass widow
what the hell; preposterous
to support one's family (idiom)
needlework / sewing
prefabricated building / prefab / mobile home / caravan / trailer
valve
biopsy
walking dictionary / well-informed person
to act recklessly (idiom)
Notopterygium root (root of Notopterygium incisum)
nimble / agile / convenient
to be tired of living / (coll.) to be asking for trouble
demand deposit
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
heavy work
sb who witnesses a crime and is not killed by the perpetrator / a captive who can provide information
to finish a job on time / to produce the goods
trick / deception
lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries / two parties cannot coexist
to eke out a living / to live from hand to mouth / to drift aimlessly
printing with movable type
prefabricated building / prefab
to enliven / to invigorate / to revitalize
terribly / awfully / desperately
political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s)

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