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

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