生活(shēng huó): to live
HSK 22 characters
to live
Character breakdown
2 characters · plays one at a time
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Word information
- Pinyin
- shēng huó
- Meaning
- to live
- HSK level
- HSK 2
- Characters
- 2
- Traditional
- Same
Appears in lessons
生活 is taught in these textbook lessons.
Example sentences
How 生活 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.
生活多么复杂！
shēng huó duō me fù zá
Life is so complicated.
老人独自生活。
lǎo rén dú zì shēng huó
The old man lived by himself.
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