生活
shēng huó 1–2
to live; life; livelihood
- Characters
- 2
- 生 · 活
- Syllables
- 2
- shēng huó
- Frequency
- Very common
- corpus count 203
Part of speech: vn,v
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
生活第一！
Shēng huó dì yī
Life first!
他一个人生活。
Tā yī gè rén shēng huó
He lives by himself.
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 生活. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 发生fā shēngHSK 3
to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- 活huóHSK 3
to live; alive; living; work; workmanship
- 生shēngHSK 2
to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; raw; uncooked; student
- 先生xiān shengHSK 1
teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor
- 活动huó dòngHSK 2
to exercise; to move about; to operate; to use connections (personal influence); loose; shaky; active; movable; activity; campaign; maneuver; behavior
- 学生xué shengHSK 1
student; schoolchild
- 生命shēng mìngHSK 3
life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature
- 医生yī shēngHSK 1
doctor
- 人生rén shēngHSK 3
life (one's time on earth)
- 产生chǎn shēngHSK 3
to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
- 生日shēng rìHSK 1
birthday
- 一生yī shēngHSK 2
all one's life; throughout one's life
- 女生nǚ shēngHSK 1
schoolgirl; female student; girl
- 出生chū shēngHSK 2
to be born
- 生意shēng yìHSK 3
life force; vitality
- 生气shēng qìHSK 1
to get angry; to take offense; angry; vitality; liveliness
- 生物shēng wùHSK 7
organism; living creature; life form; biological
- 生产shēng chǎnHSK 3
to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child
- 生存shēng cúnHSK 3
to exist; to survive
- 男生nán shēngHSK 1
schoolboy; male student; boy; guy (young adult male)
- 卫生wèi shēngHSK 3
health; hygiene; sanitation
- 活力huó lìHSK 5
energy; vitality; vigor; vital force
- 生长shēng zhǎngHSK 3
to grow; to grow up; to be brought up
- 生病shēng bìngHSK 1
to fall ill