IDENTITY
流liúto flow; stream
HSK 3Top 200
CORE MEANING
to flow; stream
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to flowHSK3
- 2.to exchange; to circulateHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 氵water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰氵㐬
- water
- gives the sound liú (historical)
USAGE
Common words
交流jiāoliúto exchange
流行liúxíngpopular
流利liúlìfluent
Graded examples
他说中文说得很流利。Tā shuō Zhōngwén shuō de hěn liúlì.HSK5
He speaks Chinese fluently.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Water (氵) moving like a newborn’s floating hair (㐬) — flowing.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #200
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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