HSK 5 · Adjectives

活跃 huóyuè “active” in Chinese

Traditional 活躍

What 活跃 means

  1. active
  2. lively
  3. excited
  4. to enliven
  5. to brighten up

How to say 活跃

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale活huó2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale跃yuè4th tone, falling

活跃 in a sentence

  1. 我母亲很活跃。

    Wǒ mǔqīn hěn huóyuè.

    My mother is very active.

    Sentence #1406493 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他的大脑仍然很活跃。

    Tā de dànǎo réngrán hěn huóyuè.

    His brain is still very active.

    Sentence #810670 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 玛丽没她姐妹活跃。

    Mǎlì méi tā jiěmèi huóyuè.

    Mary isn’t as active as her sister.

    Sentence #7823033 from Tatoeba

How 活跃 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 活 (huó) with each of its parts in a different colour
活huóto live
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 舌tongue · shéSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 舌 (shé) hints at the sound. Compare it with huó.

The character 跃 (yuè) with each of its parts in a different colour
跃yuèto jump
  • 足foot · zúMeaning part
  • 夭young · yāoSound part

足 hints at the meaning (foot); 夭 (yāo) hints at the sound. Compare it with yuè.

How to write 活跃

活 9 strokes · 跃 11 strokes

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活跃 (huóyuè) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 活跃 (huóyuè). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 活跃

Words with 活

活huó · to live活动huódòng · activity生活shēnghuó · to live活泼huópo · lively灵活línghuó · flexible干活儿gànhuór · to work活该huógāi · serves (someone) right快活kuàihuo · happy复活fùhuó · to come back to life活力huólì · vitality

Words with 跃

跳跃tiàoyuè · to jump踊跃yǒngyuè · eager飞跃fēiyuè · leap

More words: Adjectives

合理hélǐ · rational糊涂hútu · muddled慌张huāngzhāng · flustered灰huī · grey激烈jīliè · (of competition or fighting) intense坚决jiānjué · firm坚强jiānqiáng · staunch艰巨jiānjù · arduous

FAQs

活跃 (huóyuè) means “active” or “lively”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it huóyuè: huó with a 2nd tone, then yuè with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 活跃 is written 活躍. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huoyue with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 活跃 from the suggestions. Typing huoyue into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
活跃 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.