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生活

shēng huó

HSK 2 · word 959 of 3,000

Meaning

• to live
• life
• livelihood

Example sentence

Characters in 生活

• 生 shēng to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born
• 活 huó to live

生 to live plus 活, alive. 活 gives 活动 and 干活儿; the word covers life as lived and the verb to live, where 生命 is the biological fact.

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