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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

活脱huó tuō

remarkably alike

活脱脱huó tuō tuō

remarkably alike

活色生香huó sè shēng xiāng

(of a flower) vividly colorful and fragrant / (of a woman) captivating / charming / (of writing or a painting etc) lifelike / vivid

活茬huó chá

farm work

活菩萨huó pú sà

a living Buddha / fig. compassionate person / saint

活着huó zhe

alive

活血huó xuè

to improve blood circulation (Chinese medicine)

活见鬼huó jiàn guǐ

what the hell / preposterous

活跃分子huó yuè fèn zǐ

active member / activist

活钱huó qián

cash on hand / readily available funds / extra income

活雷锋huó Léi Fēng

a selfless, helpful person, like the model citizen Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[Léi Fēng] (often used to refer to sb in a joking or teasing way)

活靶子huó bǎ zi

live target / target (of criticism etc)

活体huó tǐ

living body / live specimen

活体检视huó tǐ jiǎn shì

biopsy

活体组织检查huó tǐ zǔ zhī jiǎn chá

biopsy / abbr. to 活檢|活检[huó jiǎn]

活鱼huó yú

fresh fish / living fish

活龙活现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)

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[wéi qí]

做活儿zuò huó r

erhua variant of 做活[zuò huó]

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

公益活动gōng yì huó dòng

charity event / public service activities

出活chū huó

to finish a job on time / to produce the goods

包活bāo huó

job paid according to the amount of work done / contract work

反美是工作赴美是生活fǎn Měi shì gōng zuò fù Měi 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kǒu huó

oral sex

品味生活pǐn wèi shēng huó

to appreciate life

哭得死去活来kū de sǐ qù huó lái

to cry one's heart out

地震活动带dì zhèn huó dòng dài

seismic zone / earthquake belt

太阳活动tài yáng huó dòng

sunspot activity / solar variation

失活shī huó

(of an enzyme, microorganism, catalyst etc) to lose biological or chemical activity / to become inactivated

好死不如赖活着hǎo sǐ bù rú lài huó zhe

better a bad life than a good death (idiom)

好活当赏hǎo huó dāng shǎng

(coll.) bravo / nice one / lovely

存活率cún huó lǜ

(med.) survival rate / (med.) recovery rate

守活寡shǒu huó guǎ

to stay at home while one's husband is away / grass widow

寄生生活jì shēng shēng huó

parasitic life (of an organism) / (fig.) parasitic lifestyle (of a person)

审美活动shěn měi huó dòng

appreciating the arts / esthetic activity

复活赛fù huó sài

repechage (supplementary qualifying round in sports)

爱得死去活来ài de sǐ qù huó lái

to be madly in love

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