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Mythic Mandarin

活命 (huó mìng): meaning and stroke order

活命 (huó mìng) means life, to survive, to save a life, to scrape a living.

活命

Simplified
活命
Traditional
活命 (same form)
Pinyin
huó mìng

Stroke order of 活命

活

  • huó to live; alive
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

命

  • mìng life; fate
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 活命

  1. huó mìng
    • life
    • to survive
    • to save a life
    • to scrape a living

Radicals of the characters

活
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 9 strokes · 氵 on the left, 舌 on the right
命
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 8 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

活命 in our stories

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  • 有一户人家的族谱上，竟然也记着一句话：“光绪某年大饥，赖米店主人暗中接济，得以活命。”

    yǒu yí hù rénjiā de zúpǔ shàng jìngrán yě jì zhe yí jù huà Guāngxù mǒu nián dà jī lài mǐ diàn zhǔrén ànzhōng jiējì déyǐ huómìng

    In one family's genealogy there was, astonishingly, this line: "In a year of great famine under Guangxu, we survived thanks to the secret help of the rice-shop owner."

    From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 活命

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).