I can't live that kind of life.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
活着
alive
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
alive
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 活着 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 活着 appears in 38 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I wish she were alive now.
We eat so we can live.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 活着.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 活着.
Directly before
- 还活着15
- 都活着2
- 这样活着1
- 为了活着1
- 波尔活着1
Directly after
- 活着的7
- 活着看到1
- 活着就1
- 活着还是1
- 活着并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 活着
What does 活着 mean in Chinese?
活着 (huózhe) means alive.
How do you pronounce 活着?
活着 is pronounced huózhe.
Is 活着 an HSK word?
活着 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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