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to have a meal / to eat / to make a living
HSK 1
life (as the characteristic of living beings) / living being; creature (CL:條|条)
HSK 3
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  *厅* | 厅* | *厅
(reception) hall / living room / office / provincial government department
HSK 5
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  *活* | 活* | *活
to live / alive / living / work / workmanship
HSK 3
dormitory / dorm room / living quarters / hostel / CL: 間|间
HSK 5
living room; sitting room / CL: 間|间
HSK 5
to earn a living by performing (typically in informal or public settings)
organism / living creature / life form / biological / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
rice bowl / fig. livelihood / job / way of making a living
HSK 7-9
to rely on others for the air one breathes (idiom); to depend on sb's whim for one's living
living animals
(Tw) life skills education; education in practical, emotional, social and moral aspects of daily living
not living up to expectations (idiom) / failing to inspire confidence among people / unpopular
racing bicycle; racing car; sports car / to drive a vehicle (such as a truck or taxi) for a living / (of a conductor or attendant) to work on a train / (mining) (of a cable-car) to slip away (in an accident)
HSK 7-9
one bedroom and one living room
habitat; living environment
(of a path etc) narrow / (of a living space etc) cramped / (of a way of thinking, a definition etc) narrow; limited
HSK 7-9
the world / this world / the world of the living
actual example / living example / illustration / demonstration / (computing) instance
all living things
lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom); fig. to make a comeback
the ideal is to be like water (which benefits all living things and does not struggle against them) (quotation from the "Book of Dao" 道德經|道德经)
to migrate to Beijing or Taipei in search of better job opportunities / migrant worker living and working in Beijing or Taipei without a residence permit
to take the life of a living creature
Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi / Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnam
to seek one's livelihood / to work to support oneself / to earn a living
HSK 7-9
person living or traveling far from home
lit. cool breeze and bright moon (idiom) / fig. peaceful and clear night / (allusively) living a solitary and quiet life
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
to design an artificial system, taking inspiration from a living organism; bionic; biomimetic
plain and simple / unadorned / simple living / not frivolous
HSK 7-9
What decade are you living in? / That's so out-of-date!
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
living standards
"left-behind children", rural children whose parents have to make a living as migrant workers in distant urban areas, but cannot afford to keep the family with them
(literary) the people / living thing / creature
to make a hard living as unskilled laborer
a living Buddha / fig. compassionate person / saint
a second job / supplementary way of making a living
survival / the struggle to eke out a living / to seek for continued existence
at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state / imminent crisis / living from hand to mouth
(Buddhism) to deliver all living creatures from suffering (idiom)
living a simple life
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
living area / residential area
to glean / to collect scraps / to eke out a meager living
(jocular) to sleep on the couch; to sleep in the living room
person who lives and makes a living on a boat / boatman / boat dweller
to work hard / to try to make a living
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
to sing for a living
living room / sitting room
to live one's life / to make a living
pit of fire / fig. living hell
Hui person / member of Hui ethnic group living across China
(biology) the biological world; the realm of living organisms
(of children, parents etc) at one's side; living with one
every living being (Buddhism) / the mass of common people
living person
lit. to jump out of a fire pit (idiom); to escape from a living hell / to free oneself from a life of torture
wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom) / person who has no family or friends to rely on
Living Buddha / title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century
countryman living abroad
barracks / living quarters
sb who sells one's blood for a living
to make a living doing manual labor / to give sth all one's got
to forage / to hunt for food / to scavenge / fig. to make a living
living museum
people who live and make a living on boats
to work for a living
non-living; inanimate; lifeless
to earn a living (esp. with negative)
(idiom) overweight as a result of living a life of privilege
Eastern Barbarians, non-Han tribe living to the east of China c 2200 BC
Chinese person who returns to China after living as an expatriate
to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker) / life of a group of stones in Go 圍棋|围棋
to harvest (an organ) from a living person
a god living in our midst (sb who can predict the future like a prophet or who leads a life without constraints)
hibernation / living in seclusion
a scholar or government official living in one's village / a village gentleman / squire
(of a deceased) during one's life / while living
HSK 7-9
lit. earthen steps and a small cottage / frugal living conditions (idiom)
foreign lands and places (idiom); living as expatriate
workshop / temporary housing for workers / workers' living quarters
real (people) / living (artist) / while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
clean-living and honest (idiom); to avoid immorality / to shun evil influence / to mind one's own business and keep out of trouble / to keep one's hands clean
to make one's living from the sea
fresh fish / living fish
to scrape a meager living / to get by with difficulty
at dawn, not sure of lasting to evening (idiom); precarious state / imminent crisis / living from hand to mouth
impossible to make a living
(Buddhism) the world of the living
to make a living
stranger / living person / to give birth / to be born (in a certain time or place)
to make (products, living spaces etc) suitable for the elderly; (attributive) senior-friendly; elder-accessible
slow living
to give change / to seek funding / (dialect) to make money; to earn a living
to earn one's living (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 謀生|谋生
people living on the frontiers / inhabitants of a border area

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