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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
活生生
real (people)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
real (people)
02
living (artist)
03
while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 活生生 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 活生生 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
I've never seen a live whale.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 活生生.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 活生生.
Directly before
- 一条活生生1
- 一部活生生1
- 被活生生1
Directly after
- 活生生的2
- 活生生地1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 活生生
What does 活生生 mean in Chinese?
活生生 (huóshēngshēng) means real (people).
How do you pronounce 活生生?
活生生 is pronounced huóshēngshēng.
Is 活生生 an HSK word?
活生生 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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