活人 (huó rén) — living person, someone who is still alive
Definition
活人 literally means 'a living person' — used in contrast to a corpse, ghost, or someone clinically dead. Pairs with the verb 活 (to be alive / survive) but functions as a noun.
noun
living personsomeone who is still alive
Measure word · 个
Examples
- ，活人。Zài shì gù zhōng, zhǐ yǒu tā yí gè huó rén huó le xià lái.In the accident, only he, a living person, survived.
- ，活人。Yī shēng shuō tā hái yǒu xī wàng, yīn wèi tā hái shì yí gè huó rén.The doctor said he still has hope because he is still a living person.
- ，活人。Kǎo gǔ xué jiā fā xiàn le yí jù liǎng qiān nián qián de shī tǐ, dàn xiàn zài yǐ jīng bú shì huó rén le.Archaeologists discovered a two-thousand-year-old corpse, but it is no longer a living person.
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