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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
energy / vitality / vigor / vital force
HSK 5
lively / vivacious / brisk / active / (chemistry) reactive
HSK 5
living animals
active / lively / excited / to enliven / to brighten up
HSK 6
(banking) current (account) / checking (account) / demand (deposit etc)
HSK 7-9
funds on call / invested sum that can be cashed
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
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
piston
a living Buddha / fig. compassionate person / saint
active member; activist
place for activities (playground, event venue etc)
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
live poultry
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
to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly / to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective)
remarkably alike
(of a flower) vividly colorful and fragrant / (of a woman) captivating; charming / (of writing or a painting etc) lifelike; vivid
what the hell; preposterous
live target / target (of criticism etc)
living person
movable type
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
mobility / motility
handicraft / needlework / work
prefabricated building / prefab / mobile home / caravan / trailer
(chemistry) activity / active / activated
active volcano
see 活像
walking dictionary / well-informed person
to harvest (an organ) from a living person
demand deposit
a god living in our midst (sb who can predict the future like a prophet or who leads a life without constraints)
bitter sufferings; great hardships
(neologism c. 2006) if you live long enough, you'll see everything / Just incredible!
real (people) / living (artist) / while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
remarkably alike
typography / movable type
prefabricated building / prefab
fresh fish / living fish
impossible to make a living
sb who witnesses a crime and is not killed by the perpetrator / a captive who can provide information
printing with movable type
to survive
farm work
to survive / to keep on living
political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s)
cash on hand; readily available funds / extra income
living fossil
to creatively combine learning with usage / to learn and apply pragmatically
nimble
to live (one's life) well / (slang) to be good in bed
to be tired of living / (coll.) to be asking for trouble
activated oxygen species (AOS)
activated carbon
to improve blood circulation (Chinese medicine)
biopsy
to bury alive
reagent (chemistry)
printing with movable type / typesetting
biopsy / abbr. to 活檢|活检
One is never too old to learn. (idiom)
dynamic / enthusiastic / energetic
to look exactly like / to be the spitting image of
activity center / CL: 處|处
adjustable spanner
flaming fire / flames
to invigorate blood circulation and alleviate pain (idiom)
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
active desktop
biopsy
valve
nimble / agile / convenient
activation
flexible / adaptable
(coll.) to go through sheer hell
living body / live specimen
activist
activation analysis
zombie
flipchart
sliding bevel (to measure angles)
spirited atmosphere

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