生活 shēnghuó▶ ชีวิต

Stroke order

生活 is written in 14 strokes across 2 characters.

• 生 — 5 strokes
• 活 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. to live
2. life
3. livelihood

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

• 出生การเกิด, กำเนิด
• 发生เกิดขึ้น
• 活动กิจกรรม
• 活泼มีชีวิตชีวา
• 生命ชีวิต
• 生意ธุรกิจ

生活 is pronounced shēnghuó and means “ชีวิต”. HSK 4 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 生活 and being able to use it, and cramming a list flatters the first while doing little for the second. LexiTrail shows you the word again at the point your recall of it is about to lapse.