流
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to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread; to move or drift; to degenerate; to banish or send into exile; stream of water or sth resembling one; class, rate or grade
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Dict coverage rank #115 U+6D41
How 流 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 㐬 (phonetic)
components: 氵 㐬
How to remember it
flow · Heisig RSH #684
水 water + baby Moses
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 㐬
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 㐬 (—) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 㐬 sound component | — | pennant; wild, barren, uncultivated |
| 硫 | liú | sulfur |
| 琉 | liú | sparkling stone; opaque, glazed |
| 梳 | shū | brush, comb |
| 醯 | xī | vinegar, acid; to pickle |
| 巯 | qiú | an atom group |
| 旒 | liú | tassels, fringes; pearls studding a crown |
Words containing 流
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大流行 | dà liú xíng | major epidemic; pandemic |
| 流体动力学 | liú tǐ dòng lì xué | fluid dynamics |
| 流动人口 | liú dòng rén kǒu | floating population; transient population |
| 流体力学 | liú tǐ lì xué | fluid mechanics; hydrodynamics |
| 流动性 | liú dòng xìng | flowing; shifting; fluidity; mobility; liquidity (of funds) |
| 流行性 | liú xíng xìng | qualities that make sth popular or fashionable; (of a disease) epidemic |
| 人流 | rén liú | stream of people; abortion; abbr. for 人工流產|人工流产[ren2 gong1 liu2 chan3] |
| 一流 | yī liú | top quality; front ranking |
| 流口水 | liú kǒu shuǐ | to drool; to salivate; (fig.) to covet; to lust after |
| 水流 | shuǐ liú | river; stream |
| 流水 | liú shuǐ | running water; (business) turnover |
| 中流 | zhōng liú | midstream |
| 心流 | xīn liú | (psychology) flow; being "in the zone" |
| 流行病学 | liú xíng bìng xué | epidemiology |
| 流动 | liú dòng | to flow; to circulate; to move about; mobile; (of assets) liquid |
| 流行 | liú xíng | (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) … |
| 上流 | shàng liú | upper class |
| 流水线 | liú shuǐ xiàn | assembly line; (computing) pipeline |
| 流行语 | liú xíng yǔ | popular jargon; catchword |
| 流年不利 | liú nián bù lì | the year's horoscope augurs ill (idiom); an unlucky year |