She lived alone after her husband died.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
过活
to live one's life
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to live one's life
02
to make a living
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 过活 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 过活 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I don't know what Tom does for a living.
Can't you get by on your salary?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 过活.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 过活.
Directly before
- 不能过活1
- 人过活1
- 麽过活1
- 里过活1
Directly after
- 过活吗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 过活
What does 过活 mean in Chinese?
过活 (guòhuó) means to live one's life.
How do you pronounce 过活?
过活 is pronounced guòhuó.
Is 过活 an HSK word?
过活 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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