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HSK
to exercise / to move about / to operate / to use connections (personal influence) / loose / shaky / active / movable / activity / campaign / maneuver / behavior / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 2
to live / life / livelihood
HSK 2
erhua variant of 幹活|干活
HSK 2
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  *活* | 活* | *活
to live / alive / living / work / workmanship
HSK 3
energy / vitality / vigor / vital force
HSK 5
lively / vivacious / brisk / active / (chemistry) reactive
HSK 5
happy / cheerful
HSK 5
flexible / nimble / agile
HSK 6
active / lively / excited / to enliven / to brighten up
HSK 6
cost of living / living expenses / alimony
HSK 6
to activate
HSK 7-9
work / (lots of) things to do
HSK 7-9
to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection
HSK 7-9
vivid; lively / (of food ingredients) live or fresh
HSK 7-9
(coll.) serve sb right / deservedly / ought / should
HSK 7-9
(banking) current (account) / checking (account) / demand (deposit etc)
HSK 7-9
to provide for / to keep (animals, a family etc) / to raise animals / to feed and clothe / support / the necessities of life / to give birth
HSK 7-9
to be really busy / pressing business
HSK 7-9
(chemistry) activity / active / activated
activation
to survive (a serious accident) / survival
to work; to be employed
to live one's life / to make a living
to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker) / life of a group of stones in Go 圍棋|围棋
to improve blood circulation (Chinese medicine)
arrogant appearance / smug appearance / to act condescending / to put on airs
living person
movable type
Living Buddha / title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century
to capture alive
living body / live specimen
through road / way out / way to survive / means of subsistence
labor / physical work
farm work
living animals
to live without dignity; to barely sustain oneself
to hover between life and death (idiom) / to suffer terribly / within an inch of one's life
to survive
piston / valve
to bury alive
to act recklessly (idiom)
sb who witnesses a crime and is not killed by the perpetrator / a captive who can provide information
(med.) survival rate / (med.) recovery rate
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
real (people) / living (artist) / while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries / two parties cannot coexist
life or death / fate / no matter what / anyway / for the life of me
lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom) / fig. vigorous and lively
to revitalize (assets, resources etc)
to enliven / to invigorate / to revitalize
to leap and frisk about (idiom); lively / healthy and active
remarkably alike
to look exactly like / to be the spitting image of
(medicine) vital capacity
handicraft / needlework / work
buffoon / clown / ridiculous person
a slip-knot / a noose
to bring back to life
while still alive / simply / totally
odd jobs
specialty / unique skill
heavy work
half dead / more dead than alive
to tire oneself out through overwork / to work oneself to death
life / to survive / to save a life / to scrape a living
to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically
unskilled labor / heavy manual work
to finish a job on time / to produce the goods
flexible / adaptable
typography / movable type
one's utmost / (to fight or work) desperately hard / to put up a life or death struggle / at all costs
bitter work / sweated labor
flaming fire / flames
bitter sufferings; great hardships
spirited atmosphere
see 活像
what the hell; preposterous
to support one's family (idiom)
living spirit, living image (idiom); true to life / vivid and realistic
political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s)
to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly / to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective)
alive
valve
valve
nimble
trick / deception
sex life
to survive / to keep on living
private life
LOHAS (lifestyles of health and sustainability)
night life
activity center / CL: 處|处
spiritual or moral life
demand deposit
surfactant
slow living
(of a flower) vividly colorful and fragrant / (of a woman) captivating; charming / (of writing or a painting etc) lifelike; vivid
Easter
Notopterygium root (root of Notopterygium incisum)

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