Character Details
| live (to); alive | Ascii: 22987 | w365 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 活 | huó | hoo:awh | 2 | 氵 (water) + 舌 (tongue) → live; alive | 活 link | ||||||
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Lively people often have saliva/water flying off their tongues while rambling on. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
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| - This is life | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 85 - 氏 | shì | water | clan | clan mark | 氏 民 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 氵 (water) + 舌 (tongue) → live; alive | 水 (semantic) | 舌 (phonetic) | phonetic from 舌 | ||||||||