活动 huódòng▶ actividad

Stroke order

活动 is written in 15 strokes across 2 characters.

• 活 — 9 strokes
• 动 — 6 strokes

Senses

1. to exercise; to move about; to work out
2. shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
3. movable; flexible; liquid (capital etc)
4. (volcanic, seismic, economic etc) activity
5. to use personal influence, connections, bribes etc

Example sentences

• 学校今天有活动。Xuéxiào jīntiān yǒu huódòng.There is an activity at school today.
• 这个活动很有意思。Zhège huódòng hěn yǒu yìsi.This activity is very interesting.

Related words

• 动作acción
• 感动Estar conmovido
• 活泼animado
• 激动Emocionado
• 生活Vida
• 等 （动）Esperar

活动 is pronounced huódòng and means “actividad”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 活动 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.