灵活 línghuó▶ ยืดหยุ่น

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กระตือรือร้น; คล่องแคล่ว
• 干活儿ทำงาน
• 复活การฟื้นคืนชีพ
• 心灵หัวใจ
• 快活มีความสุข
• 机灵ฉลาด; หลักแหลม

灵活 is pronounced línghuó and means “ยืดหยุ่น”. 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.