| huó | to live/alive/living/work/workmanship |
| 活 | to live alive living |
| 活下 | to survive |
| 活下去 | to survive to keep on living |
| 活不下去 | impossible to make a living |
| 活人 | living person |
| 活似 | look exactly like |
| 活体 | living body live specimen |
| 活体检视 | biopsy |
| 活体肾脏移植 | [Medicine] a living donor kidney transplant |
| 活体解剖 | vivisection; vivisect; sentisection |
| 活体鉴定 | identification of the living |
| 活佛 | Living Buddha title of Mongolian Lamas from 17th century |
| 活便 | nimble agile convenient |
| 活像 | a living likeness a spitting image of sb |
| 活儿 | work (lots of) things to do |
| 活分 | nimble |
| 活到老学到老 | Live and learn. 2.It is never too old to learn. |
| 活到老，学到老 | One is never too old to learn. (idiom) |
| 活力 | energy vitality vigor |
| 活力四射 | dynamic enthusiastic energetic |