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What 流 means

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

Pictophonetic: semantic 氵 (water), phonetic 㐬

Made of 氵 + 㐬

Words with 流

• 交流jiāo liúto exchange; exchange; communication; interaction; to have social contact (with sb)
• 流血liú xuèto bleed; to shed blood
• 流行liú xíng(of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable
• 流氓liú mángrogue; hoodlum; gangster; immoral behavior
• 一流yī liútop quality; front ranking
• 河流hé liúriver
• 流浪汉liú làng hàntramp; wanderer
• 流浪liú làngto drift about; to wander; to roam; nomadic; homeless; unsettled (e.g. population); vagrant
• 流言liú yánrumor; gossip; to spread rumors
• 流放liú fàngto exile; to banish; to deport; to float (logs) downstream
• 流动liú dòngto flow; to circulate; to go from place to place; to be mobile; (of assets) liquid
• 流泪liú lèito shed tears

流 in a sentence

• 我们没机会赢那些一流选手。

  wǒ men méi jī huì yíng nà xiē yì liú xuǎn shǒu 。

  We have no chance against those top players.

• 园艺在这几年很流行。

  yuán yì zài zhè jǐ nián hěn liú xíng 。

  Gardening has been popular for some years.

• 你的牙龈流血吗？

  nǐ de yá yín liú xuè ma ？

  Do your gums bleed?

• 这条路与河流平行。

  zhè tiáo lù yǔ hé liú píng xíng 。

  The road is parallel to the river.

• 开口要有礼貌，不讲下流话。

  kāi kǒu yào yǒu lǐ mào ， bù jiǎng xià liú huà 。

  One must be respectful when speaking, and not say obscene things.

Characters that sound like 流

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