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  *過* | 過* | *過
to cross / to go over / to pass (time) / to celebrate (a holiday) / to live / to get along / excessively / too-
HSK 1
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  *住* | 住* | *住
to live / to dwell / to stay / to reside / to stop / (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)
HSK 1
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
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  *活* | 活* | *活
to live / alive / living / work / workmanship
HSK 3
(TV, radio) to broadcast live / live broadcast / (Internet) to livestream / (agriculture) direct seeding
HSK 3
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  *寄* | 寄* | *寄
to send / to mail / to entrust / to depend on / to attach oneself to / to live (in a house) / to lodge / foster (son etc)
HSK 4
to drop in / to visit / to lock a door / (of a shop) to close / to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
HSK 4
to reside / to dwell / to live in a place / resident in
HSK 4
to enjoy / to live it up / pleasure / CL: 種|种
HSK 5
longevity / long-lived
HSK 5
practice / to put into practice / to live up to (a promise) / to carry out (a project)
HSK 6
opportunity to live; hope of success / vigor; vitality
HSK 7-9
to live one's life / to pass one's days / to get along
HSK 7-9
vivid; lively / (of food ingredients) live or fresh
HSK 7-9
live (e.g. broadcast or recording) / what is actually happening / scene / the real situation
HSK 7-9
to fail to live up (to expectations) / unworthy (of trust) / to let down / to betray (hopes) / to disappoint
HSK 7-9
to live somewhere as a visitor; to stay with sb as a guest; to sojourn
HSK 7-9
to save on food and clothing (idiom); to live frugally
HSK 7-9
to live to the (ripe) age of
to live at home / to stay at home / home (schooling etc) / in-home (care etc) / household (repairs etc) / living (environment etc)
the Jade Hare (legendary rabbit said to live in the Moon) / the Moon
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  *棲* | 棲* | *棲
to perch / to rest (of birds) / to dwell / to live / to stay
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  *處* | 處* | *處
to reside / to live / to dwell / to be in / to be situated at / to stay / to get along with / to be in a position of / to deal with / to discipline / to punish
to live alone / to spend time alone (or with a significant other)
Long live (the king, the revolution etc)! / Your Majesty / His Majesty
to live in seclusion
lit. Sow melon and you get melon, sow beans and you get beans (idiom); fig. As you sow, so shall you reap. / One must live with the consequences of one's actions. / You've made your bed, now must lie on it.
to live together (in a large group or flock)
on-the-spot live broadcast
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  *闃* | 闃* | *闃
quiet / to live alone
to live away from home
to live one's life / to make a living
to be disappointing / to fail to live up to expectations
live coal / ember / burning coals
to pass the winter / to overwinter / to live through the winter
to broadcast live from the scene / live relay
may you live a long and happy life together (wedding greeting)
to withdraw from the fray and live in seclusion / to retire
Peng Zu (legendary figure of Taoism who lived 800 years)
a genius (literally, an immortal who has been banished from heaven to live on earth), an epithet for exceptional individuals such as the Tang poet Li Bai 李白 / (fig.) banished official
to go back to one's native place and live in seclusion
(coll.) to live with and depend on one's parents even upon reaching adulthood
to be electrified; to be charged; to be live
(to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part
to live as bachelor
to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
King Mu, fifth king of Zhou, said to have lived to 105 and reigned 976-922 BC or 1001-947 BC, rich in associated mythology
to be reborn / to live in paradise (Buddhism) / to die / (after) one's death
to live alone / to live a solitary existence
real scene (not set up or posed) / real location (not a film studio set or theater) / live action (not animation)
firing line (battle) / live electrical wire
to stay at / to live in (temporarily)
to live in harmony / to get along with each other
(idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved
to seek survival / to possess the will to live
(idiom) to live together in harmony
humble abode / to live (in a tiny, cramped space)
to live frugally
spring dream / short-lived illusion / erotic dream
to live together / to cohabit
live target / target (of criticism etc)
to possess nothing except bare necessities / to live a poor or frugal life
lit. the Mount Zhongnan shortcut (idiom) / fig. shortcut to a high-flying career; easy route to success (an allusion to the Tang Dynasty story of 盧藏用|卢藏用, who lived like a hermit on Mt. Zhongnan in order to gain a reputation for wisdom, which he then used to gain a position in the Imperial Court)
to go to town / to enter a big city (to live or work)
to die young / short-lived
to live forever / eternal life / all one's life
(of disparate elements) to mix in with one another / (of diverse groups of people) to live in the same area / to coexist
to live in ease and comfort
to enjoy the present (idiom); to live happily with no thought for the future / make merry while you can / carpe diem
to separate (married couple) / to live apart (of husband and wife, family members)
no end to learning (idiom); There's always something new to study. / You live and learn.
(idiom) poor people; those who live from hand to mouth
(dialect) to live as a bachelor / bachelor
to live in peace and work happily (idiom)
to live or die / to exist or perish
to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
live pig; pig on the hoof
to live off a woman
to assess one's income and spend accordingly (idiom); to live within one's means / You can only spend what you earn.
(idiom) to be free of jealousy or greed / to live a simple life, free from worldly desires
(to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss / until death do us part
lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once / flash in the pan (idiom) / short-lived
lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well
to live like a prince (idiom)
to cut in line / to jump a queue / to live on a rural community (during the Cultural Revolution)
to lodge under another person's roof (idiom); to live relying on sb else's charity
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
live pig
Live as long as the Zhongnan Mountains! (idiom) / Long may you live!
lit. to rest and fly together (idiom) / fig. to live in each other's pockets / to be inseparable
to live far away from one's native place / to reside in a foreign country
to live in or on another organism as a parasite / to live by taking advantage of others / parasitism / parasitic
one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春 each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁
to live in seclusion / reclusive / hermit / recluse
to invite the groom (who will live with the bride's family) / to take a wife by one's own choice
to live as widow / to observe widowhood
the name does not correspond to reality (idiom); it doesn't live up to its reputation
live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp (idiom) / to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else
lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later
to muddle along / to live aimlessly

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