灵活 línghuó▶ flexible

Stroke order

灵活 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

• 灵 — 7 strokes
• 活 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. flexible
2. nimble
3. agile

Related words

• 活跃activo
• 干活儿trabajar en un empleo
• 复活resurrección
• 心灵Corazón
• 快活feliz
• 机灵sabio; listo, inteligente

灵活 is pronounced línghuó and means “flexible”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 灵活 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.