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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 水 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 流
- Common rank
- #115
- Unicode
- U+6D41
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Formation & memory
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How 流 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 㐬 sound
Components 氵 㐬
How to remember it
flow · Heisig RSH #684
水 water + baby Moses
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 流
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大流行 | major epidemic; pandemic | |
| 流体动力学 | fluid dynamics | |
| 流动人口 | floating population; transient population | |
| 流体力学 | fluid mechanics; hydrodynamics | |
| 流动性 | flowing; shifting; fluidity; mobility; liquidity (of funds) | |
| 流行性 | qualities that make sth popular or fashionable; (of a disease) epidemic | |
| 人流 | stream of people; abortion; abbr. for 人工流產|人工流产[ren2 gong1 liu2 chan3] | |
| 一流 | top quality; front ranking | |
| 流口水 | to drool; to salivate; (fig.) to covet; to lust after | |
| 水流 | river; stream | |
| 流水 | running water; (business) turnover | |
| 中流 | midstream | |
| 心流 | (psychology) flow; being "in the zone" | |
| 流行病学 | epidemiology | |
| 流动 | to flow; to circulate; to move about; mobile; (of assets) liquid | |
| 流行 | (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) … | |
| 上流 | upper class | |
| 流水线 | assembly line; (computing) pipeline | |
| 流行语 | popular jargon; catchword | |
| 流年不利 | the year's horoscope augurs ill (idiom); an unlucky year |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 㐬 — compare how they read.