Life in Chinese
life · HSK 3
生活
- 生 to give birth to
- 活 to live
我很喜欢现在的生活。 I really like my life now.
Other ways to say life
More words with 生 or 活
How do you say life in Chinese?
Life in Chinese is 生活 (shēng huó). You can also say 生命 (shēng mìng), 人生 (rén shēng), 命 (mìng), 生气 (shēng qì).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
More free tools
Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.