活 (wut6 | huo2) : live; exist; work; vivid; movable; alive

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活

wut6

huo2

[1] [v] live; exist; survive
[2] [n] work; job; livelihood
[3] [v] save the life of; keep alive
[4] [adj] vivid; lively; active
[5] [adj] movable; moving; flexible
[6] [adj] live; alive; living

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Stroke count: 9

Level: 1

Radical: 水 (#85)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

活

Don't confuse with:
話

This word has been viewed 14277 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 6th Mar 2014 13:49

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活生生 wut1 saang1 saang1 huo2 sheng1sheng1 = alive

激活 gik1 wut6 ji1 huo2 = to activate

活火山 wut6 fo2 saan1 huo2 huo3 shan1 = active volcano

活水 wut6 seoi2 = flowing water, running water 國

活動 wut6 dung6 huo2 dong4 = activity

生活 sang1 wut6 sheng1 huo2 = lifestyle; activity

活力 wut6 lik6 huo2 li4 = vitality, energy

活人 wut6 jan4 = a person who is full of life 國

養活 joeng5 wut6 yang3 huo5 = to raise

復活蛋 fuk6 wut6 daan6*2 fu4 huo2 dan4 = Easter egg
See all 92 compounds (CantoDict reports 109 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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就算喺日常生活中﹐都需要一啲科學常識。粵
We need some scientific knowledge even in dealing with our daily life.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?3,118014]

天真爛漫的孩子們過著無憂無慮的生活
Innocent children, unaffected by the surroundings, live without a worry in the world.

呢個復活節係咪去北海道滑雪,重係十劃都未有一撇。粵
It's still far too early to tell if we are going skiing in Hokkaido this Easter.
[In this sentence, the third character 都 in the idiom 十劃都未有一撇 could be moved three spaces up so that the latter half of the sentence would become 都重係十劃未有一撇. The meaning would remain the same. ]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
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Decimal representation of this word: 活
Unicode code for this character: U+6d3b (off-site link)

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