Chinese symbol for “activated”

活性

huó xìng

(chemistry) activity; active; activated

The closest CC-CEDICT match for activated is 活性 (huó xìng), defined as: (chemistry) activity; active; activated.

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Characters and stroke order

活 huó

to exist, to live, to survive; living, working

radical 85 ⽔ · 9 strokes

性 xìng

sex, nature, character; suffix converting a verb to an adjective

radical 61 ⼼ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 活性.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
活动 (活動)	huó dòng	to exercise; to move about; to work out; shaky; unsteady; loose (tooth etc)
生活	shēng huó	to live; life
活跃 (活躍)	huó yuè	active; lively
活着 (活著)	huó zhe	alive
活力	huó lì	energy; vitality
灵活 (靈活)	líng huó	flexible; nimble
女性	nǚ xìng	woman; the female sex
男性	nán xìng	the male sex; a male

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.