Lively in Chinese
lively · HSK 4
活泼
- 活 to live
- 泼 to splash
她是个很活泼的女孩。 She is a very lively girl.
Other ways to say lively
More words with 活 or 泼
How do you say lively in Chinese?
Lively in Chinese is 活泼 (huó po). You can also say 热闹 (rè nao), 生动 (shēng dòng), 活跃 (huó yuè), 活 (huó).
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.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.