| 活 | [ huó ] to live, alive, living, work, workmanship |
| 活下 | [ huó xià ] to survive |
| 活下去 | [ huó xià qù ] to survive, to keep on living |
| 活不下去 | [ huó bù xià qu ] impossible to make a living |
| 活久見 | [ huó jiǔ jiàn ] (neologism c. 2006) if you live long enough, you'll see everything, Just incredible! |
| 活人 | [ huó rén ] living person |
| 活人讓尿憋死 | [ huó rén ràng biē sǐ ] 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 |
| 活似 | [ huó sì ] see 活像[huo2 xiang4] |
| 活佛 | [ huó fó ] Living Buddha, title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century |
| 活便 | [ huó biàn ] nimble, agile, convenient |
| 活像 | [ huó xiàng ] to look exactly like, to be the spitting image of |
| 活兒 | [ huó ] work, (lots of) things to do |
| 活分 | [ huó fēn ] nimble |
| 活到老，學到老 | [ huó daò laǒ xué daò laǒ ] One is never too old to learn. (idiom) |
| 活力 | [ huó lì ] energy, vitality, vigor, vital force |
| 活力四射 | [ huó lì sì shè ] dynamic, enthusiastic, energetic |
| 活動 | [ huó dòng ] to exercise, to move about, to operate, to use connections (personal influence), loose, shaky, active, movable, activity, campaign, maneuver, behavior, CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4] |
| 活動中心 | [ huó dòng zhōng xīn ] activity center, CL:處|处[chu4] |
| 活動人士 | [ huó dòng rén shì ] activist |
| 活動家 | [ huó dòng jiā ] activist |
| 活動房 | [ huó dòng fáng ] prefabricated building, prefab |
| 活動房屋 | [ huó dòng fáng wū ] prefabricated building, prefab, mobile home, caravan, trailer |
| 活動扳手 | [ huó dòng bān shoǔ ] adjustable spanner |
| 活動掛圖 | [ huó dòng guà tú ] flipchart |
| 活動曲尺 | [ huó dòng qū chǐ ] sliding bevel (to measure angles) |
| 活動桌面 | [ huó dòng zhuō miàn ] active desktop |
| 活動看板 | [ huó dòng kàn bǎn ] calendar of events |
| 活動能力 | [ huó dòng néng lì ] mobility, motility |
| 活化 | [ huó huà ] activation |
| 活化分析 | [ huó huà fēn xī ] activation analysis |
| 活化石 | [ huó huà shí ] living fossil |
| 活受罪 | [ huó shoù zuì ] (coll.) to go through sheer hell |
| 活命 | [ huó mìng ] life, to survive, to save a life, to scrape a living |
| 活埋 | [ huó maí ] to bury alive |
| 活報劇 | [ huó baò jù ] political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s) |
| 活塞 | [ huó saī ] piston, valve |
| 活套 | [ huó taò ] noose, running knot |
| 活字 | [ huó zì ] movable type |
| 活字典 | [ huó zì diǎn ] walking dictionary, well-informed person |
| 活字印刷 | [ huó zì yìn shuā ] printing with movable type |
| 活存 | [ huó cún ] demand deposit (abbr. for 活期存款[huo2 qi1 cun2 kuan3]) |
| 活學活用 | [ huó xué huó yòng ] to creatively combine learning with usage, to learn and apply pragmatically |
| 活寶 | [ huó baǒ ] buffoon, clown, ridiculous person |
| 活屍 | [ huó shī ] zombie |
| 活度 | [ huó dù ] activity |
| 活得不耐煩 | [ huó de bù naì fán ] to be tired of living, (coll.) to be asking for trouble |
| 活性 | [ huó xìng ] (chemistry) activity, active, activated |
| 活性劑 | [ huó xìng jì ] reagent (chemistry) |
| 活性氧類 | [ huó xìng yǎng leì ] activated oxygen species (AOS) |
| 活性炭 | [ huó xìng tàn ] activated carbon |
| 活摘 | [ huó zhaī ] to harvest (an organ) from a living person |
| 活期 | [ huó qī ] (banking) current (account), checking (account), demand (deposit etc) |
| 活期存款 | [ huó qī cún kuǎn ] demand deposit |
| 活期帳戶 | [ huó qī zhàng hù ] current account (in bank) |
| 活期貸款 | [ huó qī daì kuǎn ] demand loan (i.e. loan that the borrower can demanded back at any time) |
| 活期資金 | [ huó qī zī jīn ] funds on call, invested sum that can be cashed |
| 活板 | [ huó bǎn ] trapdoor |
| 活檢 | [ huó jiǎn ] biopsy, abbr. for 活體組織檢查|活体组织检查[huo2 ti3 zu3 zhi1 jian3 cha2] |
| 活氣 | [ huó qì ] spirited atmosphere |
| 活泛 | [ huó fan ] flexible, adaptable |
| 活活 | [ huó huó ] while still alive, simply, totally |
| 活潑 | [ huó po ] lively, vivacious, brisk, active, (chemistry) reactive |
| 活火 | [ huó huǒ ] flaming fire, flames |
| 活火山 | [ huó huǒ shān ] active volcano |
| 活版 | [ huó bǎn ] typography, movable type |
| 活版印刷 | [ huó bǎn yìn shuā ] printing with movable type, typesetting |
| 活物 | [ huó wù ] living animals |
| 活瓣 | [ huó bàn ] valve |
| 活生生 | [ huó shēng shēng ] real (people), living (artist), while still alive (e.g. skinned alive) |
| 活用 | [ huó yòng ] to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly, to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective) |
| 活神仙似 | [ huó shén xiān sì ] to live like the immortals (advertising real estate) |
| 活禽 | [ huó qín ] live poultry |
| 活組織檢查 | [ huó zǔ zhī jiǎn chá ] biopsy |
| 活結 | [ huó jié ] a slip-knot, a noose |
| 活罪 | [ huó zuì ] suffering, hardship, living hell |
| 活脫 | [ huó tuō ] remarkably alike |
| 活脫脫 | [ huó tuō tuō ] remarkably alike |
| 活茬 | [ huó chá ] farm work |
| 活菩薩 | [ huó pú sà ] a living Buddha, fig. compassionate person, saint |
| 活著 | [ huó zhe ] alive |
| 活血 | [ huó xuè ] to improve blood circulation (Chinese medicine) |
| 活血止痛 | [ huó xuè zhǐ tòng ] to invigorate blood circulation and alleviate pain (idiom) |
| 活計 | [ huó jì ] handicraft, needlework, work |
| 活該 | [ huó gaī ] (coll.) serve sb right, deservedly, ought, should |
| 活路 | [ huó lù ] through road, way out, way to survive, means of subsistence |
| 活路 | [ huó lu ] labor, physical work |
| 活蹦亂跳 | [ huó bèng luàn ] to leap and frisk about (idiom); lively, healthy and active |
| 活躍 | [ huó yuè ] active, lively, excited, to enliven, to brighten up |
| 活躍份子 | [ huó yuè fèn zǐ ] activist |
| 活門 | [ huó mén ] valve |
| 活雷鋒 | [ huó leí fēng ] selfless model citizen, just like Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[Lei2 Feng1] |
| 活靈活現 | [ huó líng huó xiàn ] living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life, vivid and realistic |
| 活靶子 | [ huó bǎ zi ] live target, target (of criticism etc) |
| 活體 | [ huó tǐ ] living body, live specimen |
| 活體檢視 | [ huó tǐ jiǎn shì ] biopsy |
| 活體組織檢查 | [ huó tǐ zǔ zhī jiǎn chá ] biopsy, abbr. to 活檢|活检[huo2 jian3] |
| 活魚 | [ huó yú ] fresh fish, living fish |
| 活龍活現 | [ huó lóng huó xiàn ] living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life, vivid and realistic |
| ⇒ 不知死活 | [ bù zhī sǐ huó ] to act recklessly (idiom) |
| ⇒ 你死我活 | [ nǐ sǐ wǒ huó ] lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries, two parties cannot coexist |
| ⇒ 做活 | [ zuò huó ] to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker), life of a group of stones in Go 圍棋|围棋[wei2 qi2] |
| ⇒ 做活兒 | [ zuò huó ] erhua variant of 做活[zuo4 huo2] |
| ⇒ 做生活 | [ zuò shēng huó ] to work, to do manual labor |
| ⇒ 全活 | [ quán huó ] to save life, to rescue, the whole business with all its processes |
| ⇒ 公益活動 | [ gōng yì huó dòng ] charity event, public service activities |
| ⇒ 再活化假說 | [ zaì huó huà jiǎ shuō ] reactivation hypothesis |
| ⇒ 出活 | [ chū huó ] to finish a job on time, to produce the goods |
| ⇒ 包活 | [ baō huó ] job paid according to the amount of work done, contract work |
| ⇒ 反美是工作赴美是生活 | [ fǎn meǐ shì gōng zuò fù meǐ shì shēng huó ] being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad) |
| ⇒ 口活 | [ koǔ huó ] oral sex |
| ⇒ 品味生活 | [ pǐn weì shēng huó ] to appreciate life |
| ⇒ 哭得死去活來 | [ kū de sǐ qù huó laí ] to cry one's heart out |
| ⇒ 地震活動帶 | [ dì zhèn huó dòng daì ] seismic zone, earthquake belt |
| ⇒ 夜生活 | [ yè shēng huó ] night life |
| ⇒ 太陽活動 | [ taì yáng huó dòng ] sunspot activity, solar variation |
| ⇒ 好死不如賴活著 | [ haǒ sǐ bù rú laì huó zhe ] better a bad life than a good death (idiom) |
| ⇒ 好活當賞 | [ haǒ huó dāng shǎng ] (coll.) bravo, nice one, lovely |
| ⇒ 存活 | [ cún huó ] to survive (a serious accident), survival |
| ⇒ 存活率 | [ cún huó lǜ ] (med.) survival rate, (med.) recovery rate |
| ⇒ 守活寡 | [ shoǔ huó guǎ ] to stay at home while one's husband is away, grass widow |
| ⇒ 寄生生活 | [ jì shēng shēng huó ] parasitism, parasitic life-style |
| ⇒ 審美活動 | [ shěn meǐ huó dòng ] appreciating the arts, esthetic activity |
| ⇒ 幹活 | [ gàn huó ] to work, to be employed |
| ⇒ 幹活兒 | [ gàn huó ] erhua variant of 幹活|干活[gan4 huo2] |
| ⇒ 復活 | [ fù huó ] to revive, (lit. and fig.) to come back to life, (religion) resurrection |
| ⇒ 復活的軍團 | [ fù huó de jūn tuán ] the Resurrected Army (CCTV documentary series about the Terracotta army) |
| ⇒ 復活節 | [ fù huó jié ] Easter |
| ⇒ 復活節島 | [ fù huó jié daǒ ] Easter Island |
| ⇒ 復活賽 | [ fù huó saì ] repechage (supplementary qualifying round in sports) |
| ⇒ 忙活 | [ máng huo ] to be really busy, pressing business |
| ⇒ 快活 | [ huo ] happy, cheerful |
| ⇒ 性生活 | [ xìng shēng huó ] sex life |
| ⇒ 愛得死去活來 | [ aì de sǐ qù huó laí ] to be madly in love |
| ⇒ 成活 | [ chéng huó ] to survive |
| ⇒ 成活率 | [ chéng huó lǜ ] survival rate, rate of success |
| ⇒ 手活 | [ shoǔ huó ] manipulation (e.g. ball handling in sport), hand job |
| ⇒ 拉活 | [ lā huó ] (northern dialect) to pick up a fare (as a taxi driver), to pick up a piece of work (as a courier) |
| ⇒ 拼死拼活 | [ pīn sǐ pīn huó ] one's utmost, (to fight or work) desperately hard, to put up a life or death struggle, at all costs |
| ⇒ 接活 | [ jiē huó ] to take on a piece of work, to pick up some freelance work, (of a taxi driver) to pick up a fare |
| ⇒ 搞活 | [ gaǒ huó ] to enliven, to invigorate, to revitalize |
| ⇒ 放射性活度 | [ fàng shè xìng huó dù ] radioactivity |
| ⇒ 政治生活 | [ zhèng zhì shēng huó ] political life |
| ⇒ 救活 | [ jiù huó ] to bring back to life |
| ⇒ 文康活動 | [ wén kāng huó dòng ] cultural and recreational activities (Tw) |
| ⇒ 料件子活 | [ jiàn zi huó ] piecework |
| ⇒ 有活力 | [ yoǔ huó lì ] energetic, vital |
| ⇒ 樂活 | [ lè huó ] LOHAS (lifestyles of health and sustainability) |
| ⇒ 樹挪死，人挪活 | [ shù nuó sǐ rén nuó huó ] lit. if moved to a new location, a tree will die, but a person will live (idiom), fig. human beings, unlike trees, thrive on change |
| ⇒ 死去活來 | [ sǐ qù huó laí ] to hover between life and death (idiom), to suffer terribly, within an inch of one's life |
| ⇒ 死活 | [ sǐ huó ] life or death, fate, no matter what, anyway, for the life of me |
| ⇒ 死活不顧 | [ sǐ huó bù gù ] regardless of life or death (idiom) |
| ⇒ 死要面子活受罪 | [ sǐ yaò miàn zi huó shoù zuì ] to go through hell for the sake of keeping up appearances (idiom) |
| ⇒ 死馬當活馬醫 | [ sǐ mǎ dàng huó mǎ yī ] lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom), fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation |
| ⇒ 活學活用 | [ huó xué huó yòng ] to creatively combine learning with usage, to learn and apply pragmatically |
| ⇒ 活活 | [ huó huó ] while still alive, simply, totally |
| ⇒ 活靈活現 | [ huó líng huó xiàn ] living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life, vivid and realistic |
| ⇒ 活龍活現 | [ huó lóng huó xiàn ] living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life, vivid and realistic |
| ⇒ 減毒活疫苗 | [ jiǎn dú huó yì ] attenuated live vaccine |
| ⇒ 演活 | [ yǎn huó ] (of an actor) to bring (one's character) to life, to act brilliantly |
| ⇒ 激活 | [ jī huó ] to activate |
| ⇒ 火山活動 | [ huǒ shān huó dòng ] volcanic activity, volcanism |
| ⇒ 生吞活剝 | [ shēng tūn huó bō ] to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically |
| ⇒ 生拉活扯 | [ shēng lā huó chě ] to wildly exaggerate the meaning of sth (idiom) |
| ⇒ 生活 | [ shēng huó ] life, activity, to live, livelihood |
| ⇒ 生活作風 | [ shēng huó zuò fēng ] behavior, conduct |
| ⇒ 生活垃圾 | [ shēng huó lā jī ] domestic garbage |
| ⇒ 生活必需品 | [ shēng huó bì xū pǐn ] life's necessities |
| ⇒ 生活方式 | [ shēng huó fāng shì ] way of life, lifestyle |
| ⇒ 生活水平 | [ shēng huó shuǐ píng ] living standards |
| ⇒ 生活污水 | [ shēng huó wū shuǐ ] domestic sewage |
| ⇒ 生活美學 | [ shēng huó meǐ xué ] appreciation of the finer things in life |
| ⇒ 生活設施 | [ shēng huó shè shī ] living facilities |
| ⇒ 生活費 | [ shēng huó feì ] cost of living, living expenses, alimony |
| ⇒ 生活資料 | [ shēng huó zī ] consumer goods, means of livelihood, means of subsistence, documents relating to sb's life |
| ⇒ 生活質料 | [ shēng huó zhì ] consumer goods |
| ⇒ 生活闊綽 | [ shēng huó kuò chuò ] a flashy lifestyle, to live it up |
| ⇒ 生活館 | [ shēng huó guǎn ] living museum |
| ⇒ 生物活化性 | [ shēng wù huó huà xìng ] bioactivity |
| ⇒ 生龍活虎 | [ shēng lóng huó hǔ ] lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom), fig. vigorous and lively |
| ⇒ 破壞活動 | [ pò huó dòng ] sabotage, subversive activities |
| ⇒ 社會活動 | [ shè huì huó dòng ] social activity |
| ⇒ 神氣活現 | [ shén qì huó xiàn ] arrogant appearance, smug appearance, to act condescending, to put on airs |
| ⇒ 票活 | [ huó ] to work as amateur for no pay |
| ⇒ 私生活 | [ sī shēng huó ] private life |
| ⇒ 秘密活動 | [ mì mì huó dòng ] clandestine activities, covert operation |
| ⇒ 競選活動 | [ jìng xuǎn huó dòng ] (election) campaign |
| ⇒ 粗活 | [ cū huó ] unskilled labor, heavy manual work |
| ⇒ 精神生活 | [ jīng shén shēng huó ] spiritual or moral life |
| ⇒ 累死累活 | [ leì sǐ leì huó ] to tire oneself out through overwork, to work oneself to death |
| ⇒ 絕活 | [ jué huó ] specialty, unique skill |
| ⇒ 經濟活動 | [ jīng jì huó dòng ] economic activity |
| ⇒ 維持生活 | [ weí chí shēng huó ] to subsist, to eke out a living, to keep body and soul together |
| ⇒ 羌活 | [ qiāng huó ] Notopterygium root (root of Notopterygium incisum) |
| ⇒ 肺活量 | [ feì huó liàng ] (medicine) vital capacity |
| ⇒ 自由活動 | [ zì yoú huó dòng ] free time (between organized activities) |
| ⇒ 艙外活動 | [ cāng waì huó dòng ] extravehicular activity (outside space vehicle), EVA |
| ⇒ 花活 | [ huā huó ] trick, deception |
| ⇒ 苦活 | [ kǔ huó ] bitter work, sweated labor |
| ⇒ 苦活兒 | [ kǔ huó ] erhua variant of 苦活[ku3 huo2] |
| ⇒ 莊稼活兒 | [ zhuāng jia huó ] farm work |
| ⇒ 表面活化劑 | [ miàn huó huà jì ] surfactant |
| ⇒ 表面活性劑 | [ miàn huó xìng jì ] surfactant |
| ⇒ 要死不活 | [ yaò sǐ bù huó ] half dead, more dead than alive |
| ⇒ 要死要活 | [ yaò sǐ yaò huó ] terribly, awfully, desperately |
| ⇒ 討生活 | [ taǒ shēng huó ] to eke out a living, to live from hand to mouth, to drift aimlessly |
| ⇒ 變活 | [ biàn huó ] to come to life (by magic) |
| ⇒ 農事活動 | [ nóng shì huó dòng ] agricultural activities |
| ⇒ 農活 | [ nóng huó ] farm work |
| ⇒ 過活 | [ guò huó ] to live one's life, to make a living |
| ⇒ 重活 | [ zhòng huó ] heavy work |
| ⇒ 重活兒 | [ zhòng huó ] erhua variant of 重活[zhong4 huo2] |
| ⇒ 重活化劑 | [ zhòng huó huà jì ] reactivator |
| ⇒ 針線活 | [ zhēn xiàn huó ] needlework, sewing |
| ⇒ 針線活兒 | [ zhēn xiàn huó ] needlework, working for a living as a needleworker |
| ⇒ 針線活計 | [ zhēn xiàn huó jì ] needlework, sewing |
| ⇒ 鐵窗生活 | [ tiě chuāng shēng huó ] time served in prison, prison life |
| ⇒ 間諜活動 | [ jiàn dié huó dòng ] espionage, spying |
| ⇒ 雜活 | [ zá huó ] odd jobs |
| ⇒ 靈活 | [ líng huó ] flexible, nimble, agile |
| ⇒ 靈活性 | [ líng huó xìng ] flexibility |
| ⇒ 飯後一支煙，賽過活神仙 | [ fàn hoù yī zhī yān saì guò huó shén xiān ] have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb) |
| ⇒ 飯後百步走，活到九十九 | [ fàn hoù baǐ bù zoǔ huó daò jiǔ shí jiǔ ] walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb) |
| ⇒ 養家活口 | [ yǎng jiā huó koǔ ] to support one's family (idiom) |
| ⇒ 養活 | [ yǎng huo ] to provide for, to keep (animals, a family etc), to raise animals, to feed and clothe, support, the necessities of life, to give birth |
| ⇒ 體育活動 | [ tǐ yù huó dòng ] sports, sporting activity |
| ⇒ 鮮活 | [ xiān huó ] vivid, lively, (of food ingredients) live or fresh |
| ⇒ 鮮活貨物 | [ xiān huó huò wù ] live cargo |
