| 活着 | huó zhe | alive |   |
| 活 |  huó | to live / alive / living / work / workmanship | |
| 活活 | huó huó | while still alive / simply / totally | |
| 活生生 | huó shēng shēng | real (people) / living (artist) / while still alive (e.g. skinned alive) | |
| 在世 | zài shì | to be alive | |
| 生还 | shēng huán | to return alive / to survive | |
| 死里逃生 | sǐ lǐ táo shēng | mortal danger, escape alive (idiom) / a narrow escape / to survive by the skin of one's teeth | |
| 活捉 | huó zhuō | to capture alive | |
| 生擒 | shēng qín | to capture alive | |
| 半条命 | bàn tiáo mìng | half a life / only half alive / barely alive / (scared, beaten etc) half to death | |
| 老不死 | lǎo bù sǐ | (derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard | |
| 活埋 | huó mái | to bury alive | |
| 九死一生 | jiǔ sǐ yī shēng | nine deaths and still alive (idiom) / a narrow escape / new lease of life | |
| 烹 | pēng | cooking method / to boil sb alive (capital punishment in imperial China) | |
| 人间地狱 | rén jiān dì yù | hell on earth (idiom) / suffering the torments of Buddhist hell while still alive / fig. having an uncomfortable time | |
| 焚书坑儒 | fén shū kēng rú | to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]) | |
| 虽死犹生 | suī sǐ yóu shēng | lit. although dead, as if still alive (idiom) / still with us in spirit | |
| 阴魂不散 | yīn hún bù sàn | lit. the soul of a deceased has not yet dispersed (idiom) / fig. the influence still lingers on / the spirit (of some doctrine) is still alive | |
| 灵床 | líng chuáng | bier / bed kept as it was when the deceased was alive | |
| 坑杀 | kēng shā | to bury alive / to ensnare | |
| 殉死 | xùn sǐ | to be buried alive as sacrifice (together with husband or superior) | |
| 要死不活 | yào sǐ bù huó | half dead / more dead than alive | |
| 儿童生存方桉 | | Child Alive programme | |
| 春光乍泄 | chūn guāng zhà xiè | spring sunshine emerges to bring the world alive (idiom) / to give a glimpse of sth intimate (e.g. one's underwear) | |
| 冤家宜解不宜结 | yuān jiā yí jiě bù yí jié | It is better to squash enmity rather than keeping it alive (proverb) | |
