Chinese symbol for “survive”
存活
cún huó
to survive (a serious accident); survival
The closest CC-CEDICT match for survive is 存活 (cún huó), defined as: to survive (a serious accident); survival.
Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.
Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “survive”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 幸存 (倖存) | xìng cún | to survive (a disaster) |
| 活下去 | huó xià qù | to survive; to keep on living |
| 残存 (殘存) | cán cún | to survive; remnant |
| 成活 | chéng huó | to survive |
| 活下 | huó xià | to survive |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 存活.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 存在 | cún zài | to exist; to be |
| 生存 | shēng cún | to exist; to survive |
| 保存 | bǎo cún | to conserve; to preserve; to keep; to store; (computing) to save (a file etc) |
| 储存 (儲存) | chǔ cún | stockpile; to store |
| 存款 | cún kuǎn | to deposit money (in a bank etc); bank savings |
| 存储 (存儲) | cún chǔ | to store up; to stockpile |
| 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 “survive”.
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.