存活
cúnhuó
to survive; to remain alive
Characters in this word
活 huó
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 舌 tongue
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 在极端缺氧的环境中，只有少数微生物能够存活下来。 Zài jíduān quēyǎng de huánjìng zhōng, zhǐyǒu shǎoshù wēishēngwù nénggòu cúnhuó xiàlái. In an extremely oxygen-poor environment, only a small number of microorganisms can survive.
- 这种鱼在很冷的水里也能存活。 Zhè zhǒng yú zài hěn lěng de shuǐ lǐ yě néng cúnhuó. This kind of fish can survive even in very cold water.
- 新栽的小树苗大多都存活了下来。 Xīn zāi de xiǎo shùmiáo dàduō dōu cúnhuó le xiàlái. Most of the newly planted saplings survived.
Related words
- 保存 bǎocún to save; to store
- 存 cún to store; to keep
- 存在 cúnzài to exist
- 生存 shēngcún to survive
- 存款 cúnkuǎn savings; to deposit money
- 储存 chǔcún to store, to keep
- 存储 cúnchǔ to store
- 现存 xiàncún existing
- 存货 cúnhuò to stock; inventory; stock on hand
- 存心 cúnxīn deliberately; intentionally; to harbour an intention
- 存折 cúnzhé bankbook; passbook
- 库存 kùcún inventory; stock