VocabularyHSK 3 · core

生活

shēnghuó

life

Part of speech · noun / verb

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life
alive
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Examples

  1. 生活很美好。
    Life is wonderful.
  2. 生活在北京。
    Living in Beijing.

Collocations

生活习惯生活水平日常生活

Mnemonic

生活 shēnghuó "life, to live" — 生 (live) + 活 (alive). Both characters mean "live" — reinforcement compound. Cognate of Korean saenghwal / Japanese 生活 seikatsu. Verb and noun.

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  1. Feature of 生活?

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