活

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

• 𭉉, 𰑺, 𭡭, 𱮏, 𨨱, 𤁪(𬈾), 闊(阔), 萿, 𡎒, 𡞠, 𭝴

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *koːd, *ɡoːd): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 𠯑 (OC *ɡroːd). The 𠯑 later transformed into 舌; a conservative variant is 𣴠.

Schuessler (2007) proposes possible Austroasiatic etymology; compare Wa-Lawa-Bulang *gɑs "alive (of plants)" & Aslian *gɔs "to live"

活

1. to live; to exist

   • 不食則不能活。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     不食则不能活。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Han Feizi, circa 2^nd century BCE, translated based on W. K. Liao's version

     Bù shí zé bù néng huó. [Pinyin]

     Unless he eat, he cannot live.

2. life; existence
3. to make live; to provide food for
4. having life; live
5. lively; vivid
6. flexible; movable; moving; nimble; agile
7. flexible; adaptable; fluid
8. job; work

   幹活兒／干活儿  ―  gàn huór  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   1. act of performance

      絕活兒／绝活儿  ―  juéhuór  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

      這個網紅沒活兒了。 [MSC, trad.]
      这个网红没活儿了。 [MSC, simp.]

      Zhèi ge wǎnghóng méi huór le. [Pinyin]

      (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   2. (informal) act of sexual intercourse

      器大活兒好／器大活儿好  ―  qì dà huór hǎo  ―  the "tool" (penis) is big, [his] sex is good

   3. product; produce
9. simply; exactly
10. alive; living; in a living state

    活捉  ―  huózhuō  ―  to capture alive

    活埋  ―  huómái  ―  to bury alive

11. to save (a person's life)

    • 作百佛寺，不如活一人。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

      From: 《佛說罵意經》 (“The Sūtra Wherein the Buddha Speaks of Thoughts about Scolding”); 2nd century CE translation by An Shigao

      Zuò bǎi fósì, bùrú huó yīrén. [Pinyin]

      Building one hundred Buddhist temples cannot compare to saving just one human life.

12. (Mainland China Hokkien, emphasis in exclamations) so; how; what
13. (Mainland China Hokkien, in rhetorical questions) awful; unable to handle (used after either 會 / 会 or 𣍐 / 𫧃 to mean the same thing)

• (having life):

• (flexible): 靈活／灵活 (línghuó), 彈性／弹性 (tánxìng)
• (job):

• (product):

• (aweful): 得了 (deliǎo)

• (antonym(s) of “to live”): 死 (sǐ)

活

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 活活 (guōguō)

• “活”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “活”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 223.

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. alive
2. lively
3. (of a machine or device) on; active; in operation

• Go-on: がち (gachi)^{←ぐわち (gwati, historical)}
• Kan-on: かつ (katsu, Jōyō)^{←くわつ (kwatu, historical)}
• Kun: いきる (ikiru, 活きる)、いかす (ikasu, 活かす)、いける (ikeru, 活ける)、よみがえる (yomigaeru, 活える)

From Middle Chinese 活 (MC hwat, “to live”).

• (Tokyo) かつ [káꜜtsù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠t͡sɨ]

活(かつ) • (katsu) ^{←くわつ (kwatu)?}

1. life

From Middle Chinese 活 (MC hwat).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɸwa̠ɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [활]

Wikisource

活 (eumhun 살 활 (sal hwal))

1. hanja form^? of 활 (“activity”) [affix]

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

活: Hán Nôm readings: hoạt, oặt, oạc

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