活该 (活該)
huó gāi
Pinyin

Definition

活该 (活該)
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huó gāi
  1. (coll.) serve sb right
  2. deservedly
  3. ought
  4. should

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

活
huó
  1. 1 to live
  2. 2 alive
  3. 3 living
  4. 4 work
  5. 5 workmanship
活动
huó dòng
  1. 1 to exercise
  2. 2 to move about
  3. 3 to operate
  4. 4 to use connections (personal influence)
  5. 5 loose
  6. 6 shaky
  7. 7 active
  8. 8 movable
  9. 9 activity
  10. 10 campaign
  11. 11 maneuver
  12. 12 behavior
  13. 13 classifier: 项 xiàng
  14. 14 classifier: 个 gè
生活
shēng huó
  1. 1 life
  2. 2 activity
  3. 3 to live
  4. 4 livelihood
干活
gàn huó
  1. 1 to work
  2. 2 to be employed
复活
fù huó
  1. 1 to revive
  2. 2 (lit. and fig.) to come back to life
  3. 3 (religion) resurrection

Idioms (16)

不知死活
bù zhī sǐ huó
  1. 1 to act recklessly (idiom)
你死我活
nǐ sǐ wǒ huó
  1. 1 lit. you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries
  2. 2 two parties cannot coexist
好死不如赖活着
hǎo sǐ bù rú lài huó zhe
  1. 1 better a bad life than a good death (idiom)
死去活来
sǐ qù huó lái
  1. 1 to hover between life and death (idiom)
  2. 2 to suffer terribly
  3. 3 within an inch of one's life
死活不顾
sǐ huó bù gù
  1. 1 regardless of life or death (idiom)

Sample Sentences

这是他活该。谁让他在外面偷吃？哎！你说，章文武看起来挺正人君子的，怎么也是个花心大萝卜？
zhè shì tā huógāi 。shéi ràng tā zài wàimiàn tōuchī ？āi ！nǐ shuō ，Zhāng Wénwǔ kànqǐlái tǐng zhèngrénjūnzǐ de ，zěnme yě shì ge huāxīn dà luóbo ？
It serves him right. Who made him get a little somethin' on the side? Ai-yigh-yigh. Tell me, Zhang Wenwu looks like a real gentleman. How is it possible that he's also a lover-boy?
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活该应了谁说过的不知检点，
huógāi yìng le shéi shuō guò de bùzhījiǎndiǎnr ，
It serves me right, not knowing to be restrained in the ways people say one should
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