to live / alive / living / work / workmanship

= + : Helga Horse joined the traditional water bottle challenge and empties a bottle of water over herself in the observatory's kitchen. To raise the difficulty level, she only uses her tongue to hold the bottle.

活 character breakdown

"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.
used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
tongue

= + : Sherlock Holmes squashed his tongue under a kilo just inside the elevator's kitchen! He tries to stem the kilo with a mandarin, but not very successfully.

Characters with 活 as component

rich / wide / broad

= + : Karl Koala (ku) wants to live a rich (阔) and wide (阔) life (活). To this end he installs a wide (阔) magical trap door (门) in the observatory's bathroom (o4) which will lead him to wide landscapes.
variant of 闊|阔[kuo4]

= + : Karl Koala (ku) wants to live a rich (阔) and wide (阔) life (活). To this end he installs a wide (阔) magical trap door (门) in the observatory's bathroom (o4) which will lead him to wide landscapes.

Words with 活

to work for a living (esp. of woman needleworker) / life of a group of stones in Go 圍棋|围棋[wei2 qi2]
to finish a job on time / to produce the goods
to work / to do manual labor
to save life / to rescue / the whole business with all its processes
charity event / public service activities
job paid according to the amount of work done / contract work
being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad)
to act recklessly (idiom)
erhua variant of 做活[zuo4 huo2]

Sentences with 活

活 currently does not appear in any sentence.