灵活 línghuó▶ fleksibel

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aktif
• 干活儿mengerjakan pekerjaan
• 复活Kebangkitan
• 心灵Hati
• 快活bahagia
• 机灵bijaksana; cerdik

灵活 is pronounced línghuó and means “fleksibel”. 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.