liú

to flow; to circulate or spread; to move or drift

HSK 4 #396

Character data

HSK 4
Frequency 396th character
Radical ⽔ (85.6)
Strokes 10
Index # 2080

Definitions

流 liú
  1. 1. to flow
  2. 2. to circulate or spread
  3. 3. to move or drift
  4. 4. stream of water or sth resembling one
  5. 5. class, rate or grade
  6. 6. to disseminate
  7. 7. to degenerate
  8. 8. to banish or send into exile

Stroke order

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Words containing 流

Word Meaning
site traffic (Internet); flow rate; throughput
stream of people; abortion
torrent; torrential current; whitewater
first-class
traffic; rate of traffic flow
bird flu; avian influenza
to join in evil; go along with corruption
celebrity; public figure
drenched in sweat; to sweat profusely (idiom)
epidemic disease
to go against the trend; against the stream
tassels
style; genre; (fig.) school (of thought)
to loiter (i.e. reluctant to leave); to linger on
to follow the crowd; going with the tide
data stream; data flow
assembly line; (computing) pipeline
fig. badly bruised; lit. head broken and blood flowing
stray bullet
turbulence
direct current (DC); to flow steadily
to let things slide; to let sb do whatever they want
to circulate (of goods or capital); to be on the move
cheeks streaming with tears (idiom)
stream