Chinese symbol for “enliven”
搞活
gǎo huó
to enliven; to invigorate; to revitalize
The closest CC-CEDICT match for enliven is 搞活 (gǎo huó), defined as: to enliven; to invigorate; to revitalize.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “enliven”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 搞活.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 搞笑 | gǎo xiào | to get people to laugh; funny |
| 搞定 | gǎo dìng | to fix; to settle |
| 搞好 | gǎo hǎo | to do well at; to do a good job |
| 搞错 (搞錯) | gǎo cuò | mistake; to make a mistake |
| 恶搞 (惡搞) | è gǎo | spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, text |
| 搞不懂 | gǎo bu dǒng | unable to make sense of (sth) |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “enliven”.
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.