活命

huómìng
  1. life
  2. to survive
  3. to save a life
  4. to scrape a living

CEDICT

  1. life; survival
  2. to eke out an existence; to scrape a living
  3. to save a life; to rescue someone

Wiktionary

  1. 生命。
  2. 救活生命。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 活 huó
  1. to live
  2. alive
  3. living
  4. work
  5. workmanship
2 命 mìng
  1. life
  2. fate
  3. order or command
  4. to assign a name, title etc

Related entries

世 shì
  1. life
  2. age
  3. generation
  4. era
  5. world
  6. lifetime
  7. epoch
  8. descendant
  9. noble
他在數年前去世了。

He died some years since.

Source: Tatoeba

人生 rénshēng life (one's time on earth)
那就是人生

Such is life!

Source: Tatoeba

命 mìng
  1. life
  2. fate
  3. order or command
  4. to assign a name, title etc
納命來贖罪。

Repay your sins with your life.

Source: Tatoeba

性命 xìngmìng life
你差點性命不保。

You could have been killed.

Source: Tatoeba

生命 shēngmìng life (as the characteristic of living beings)

classifiers: 個, 條

生命是美麗的。

Life is beautiful.

Source: Tatoeba

生平 shēngpíng
  1. life (a person's whole life)
  2. in one's entire life
我生平难得做了一件好事...却是没用的。

For once in my life I'm doing a good deed... And it is useless.

Source: Tatoeba

生活 shēnghuó
  1. to live
  2. life
  3. livelihood
生活第一！

Life first!

Source: Tatoeba

生涯 shēngyá
  1. career
  2. life (way in which sb lives)
  3. period of one's life
他的政治生涯結束了。

His political career has ended.

Source: Tatoeba

身 shēn
  1. body
  2. life
  3. oneself
  4. personally
  5. one's morality and conduct
  6. the main part of a structure or body
  7. pregnant
  8. classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset
  9. Kangxi radical 158
他身肩重任。

A great responsibility lies on his shoulders.

Source: Tatoeba

青山 qīngshān
  1. green hills
  2. (the good) life
生 shēng
  1. to be born
  2. to give birth
  3. life
  4. to grow
  5. raw
  6. uncooked
  7. student
雞肉是生的。

The chicken is raw.

Source: Tatoeba

壽 shòu
  1. long life
  2. old age
  3. age
  4. life
  5. birthday
  6. funerary
春 chūn
  1. spring (season)
  2. gay
  3. joyful
  4. youthful
  5. love
  6. lust
  7. life
一年有四個季節 : 春、夏、秋、冬。

There are four seasons in a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Source: Tatoeba

倖存 xìngcún to survive (a disaster)
他在一個飛機事故中倖存了下來。

He survived a flight accident.

Source: Tatoeba

存活 cúnhuó
  1. to survive (a serious accident)
  2. survival
存活分析顯示，機率顯著減少。

Survival analysis showed a significant reduction.

Source: Tatoeba

成活 chénghuó to survive
殘存 cáncún
  1. to survive
  2. remnant
大熊猫是一种残存的古动物。

The giant panda is a surviving ancient animal species.

Source: Tatoeba

活下 huóxià to survive
她会活下来。

She will survive.

Source: Tatoeba

活下去 huóxiàqù
  1. to survive
  2. to keep on living
他為了活下去竭盡全力，所以他從來不想談起這件事。

He did everything to be able to survive, hence he never wants to talk about it.

Source: Tatoeba

生存 shēngcún
  1. to exist
  2. to survive
衣食住是生存的基础。

Food, clothing and shelter are the foundations of survival.

Source: Tatoeba

生還 shēnghuán
  1. to return alive
  2. to survive
度過 dùguò
  1. to pass
  2. to spend (time)
  3. to survive
  4. to get through
她獨自度過了週末。

She spent the weekend by herself.

Source: Tatoeba

遺存 yícún
  1. historical remains
  2. things that have survived since ancient times
  3. (of such things) to survive
存 cún
  1. to exist
  2. to deposit
  3. to store
  4. to keep
  5. to survive
你存了多少钱？

How much money did you save?

Source: Tatoeba

殘 cán
  1. to destroy
  2. to spoil
  3. to ruin
  4. to injure
  5. cruel
  6. oppressive
  7. savage
  8. brutal
  9. incomplete
  10. disabled
  11. to remain
  12. to survive
  13. remnant
  14. surplus
救生 jiùshēng
  1. to save a life
  2. life-saving