漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
活: lively, resuscitation
Also: being helped, living
JLPT N39 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 舌 gives the sound
9 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
カツkatsu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 活気かっきliveliness
- 活字かつじmoveable type
- 活火山かっかざんactive volcano
- 活発なかっぱつなactive
- 活動するかつどうするact [v.i.]
- 活躍するかつやくするbe in full activity
- 生活するせいかつするlive
- 復活するふっかつするrevive [v.i.]
Also read いきる, いかす, いける, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
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Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)水 water, as 氵 (meaning) + 𠯑 (sound)
The 𠯑 later transformed into 舌; a conservative variant is 𣴠.
Source: Wiktionary, 活 (rev. 93545839), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read カツ
8 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side活 lively · 氵
vs括 fasten · 扌In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · huó
Same form: 活 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 活 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 活 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin huó most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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