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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
active / lively / excited / to enliven / to brighten up
HSK 6
energy / vitality / vigor / vital force
HSK 5
lively / vivacious / brisk / active / (chemistry) reactive
HSK 5
alive
living animals
calendar of events
(banking) current (account) / checking (account) / demand (deposit etc)
HSK 7-9
work / (lots of) things to do
HSK 7-9
activity center / CL: 處|处
place for activities (playground, event venue etc)
through road / way out / way to survive / means of subsistence
labor / physical work
piston
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)
current account (in bank)
One is never too old to learn. (idiom)
what the hell; preposterous
(neologism c. 2006) if you live long enough, you'll see everything / Just incredible!
live poultry
living body / live specimen
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
noose / running knot
demand deposit (abbr. for 活期存款)
to creatively combine learning with usage / to learn and apply pragmatically
while still alive / simply / totally
to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly / to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective)
(of a flower) vividly colorful and fragrant / (of a woman) captivating; charming / (of writing or a painting etc) lifelike; vivid
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
(coll.) serve sb right / deservedly / ought / should
HSK 7-9
live target / target (of criticism etc)
living person
movable type
Living Buddha / title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century
prefabricated building / prefab / mobile home / caravan / trailer
activated oxygen species (AOS)
to capture alive
(chemistry) activity / active / activated
zombie
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)
to leap and frisk about (idiom); lively / healthy and active
biopsy / abbr. to 活檢|活检
mobility / motility
bitter sufferings; great hardships
cash on hand; readily available funds / extra income
reagent (chemistry)
real (people) / living (artist) / while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
typography / movable type
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
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
active desktop
biopsy
remarkably alike
valve
to survive
farm work
to survive / to keep on living
living fossil
remarkably alike
nimble
adjustable spanner
to live (one's life) well / (slang) to be good in bed
activated carbon
a living Buddha / fig. compassionate person / saint
to improve blood circulation (Chinese medicine)
handicraft / needlework / work
fresh fish / living fish
to bury alive
printing with movable type / typesetting
dynamic / enthusiastic / energetic
activist
to look exactly like / to be the spitting image of
flaming fire / flames
to invigorate blood circulation and alleviate pain (idiom)
active member; activist
nimble / agile / convenient
funds on call / invested sum that can be cashed
spirited atmosphere
activation
flexible / adaptable
(coll.) to go through sheer hell
demand loan (i.e. loan that the borrower can demanded back at any time)
activation analysis
prefabricated building / prefab
buffoon / clown / ridiculous person
a slip-knot / a noose
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
political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s)
flipchart
activist
activity

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