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Stroke order
生活 is written in 14 strokes across 2 characters.
- 生 — 5 strokes
- 活 — 9 strokes
Senses
- to live
- life
- livelihood
Characters in 生活
- 生 shēng — to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
- 活 huó — to live; alive; living
Character meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Example sentences
- 他的生活很简单。Tā de shēnghuó hěn jiǎndān.His life is very simple.
- 我们在这里生活了十年。Wǒmen zài zhèlǐ shēnghuó le shí nián.We have lived here for ten years.
Related words
生活 is pronounced shēnghuó and means “Life”.