活

See also: 話

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 氵 (“water”) + 舌 (“tongue”) – a wet tongue. Ancient Chinese thought that a wet tongue was a sign of life. 口 + 氒 (chisel; the sound "hwet").

Han character

活 (radical 85 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水竹十口 (EHJR), four-corner 3216₄, composition ⿰氵舌)

1. live, exist, survive
2. lively

Synonyms

• 生

See also

• 浩

References

• KangXi: page 622, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17423
• Dae Jaweon: page 1018, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1609, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6D3B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

活 (Jyutping wut6, Yale wut6)

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Japanese

Kanji

活

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: がち (gachi) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: かつ (katsu) < くわつ (kwatsu)
• Kun: いきる (ikiru), よみがえる (yomigaeru)

Compounds

活火 (かっか, kakka) 活花 (いけばな, ikebana) 活気 (かっき, kakki) 活況 (かっきょう, kakkyō) 活計 (かっけい, kakkei) 活殺自在 (かっさつじざい, kassatsujizai) 活字 (かつじ, katsuji)

活人剣 (かつじんけん, katsujinken) 活水 (かっすい, kassui) 活動 (かつどう, katsudō) 活発 (かっぱつ, kappatsu) 活版 (かっぱんん, kappann) 活仏 (かつぶつ, katsubutsu) 活物 (かつぶつ, katsubutsu)

活用 (かつよう, katsuyō) 活力 (かつりょく, katsuryoku) 活路 (かつろ, katsuro) 活火山 (かっかざん, kakkazan) 生活 (せいかつ, seikatsu) 復活 (ふっかつ, fukkatsu) 復活祭 (ふっかつさい, fukkatsusai)

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Korean

Hanja

活 (hwal, gwal) (hangeul 활, 괄, revised hwal, gwal, McCune-Reischauer hwal, kwal, Yale hwal, kwal)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: huó
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ho²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwo
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɔ³⁵/

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Hanzi

活 (Pinyin huó (huo2), Wade-Giles huo²)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

活 (huɑt)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

活 (TLPA hua̍t (huat⁸), ua̍h (uah⁸))

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References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

活 (hoạt, oặt, oạc)

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