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  *流* | 流* | *流
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 2
(of a contagious disease etc) to spread / to propagate / (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular / fashionable
HSK 2
fluent
HSK 2
to exchange / exchange / communication / interaction / to have social contact (with sb)
HSK 3
tide / current / trend
HSK 4
to spread / to circulate / to hand down
HSK 4
top quality / front ranking
HSK 5
to flow / to circulate / to go from place to place / to be mobile / (of assets) liquid
HSK 5
to circulate; to distribute / circulation; distribution
HSK 5
flu; influenza
HSK 6
main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc)
HSK 6
running water / (business) turnover
HSK 7-9
flowing (of speech, writing) / fluent / smooth and easy
HSK 7-9
rogue / hoodlum / gangster / immoral behavior
HSK 7-9
distinguished and accomplished / outstanding / talented in letters and unconventional in lifestyle / romantic / dissolute / loose
HSK 7-9
river basin / valley / drainage area
HSK 7-9
(of soil etc) to wash away / to be eroded / (fig.) (of talented staff, followers of a religious faith, investment funds etc) to go elsewhere / to fail to be retained
HSK 7-9
upper class
HSK 7-9
to reveal (indirectly, implicitly) / to show (interest, contempt etc) by means of one's actions, tone of voice etc
HSK 7-9
river / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
distribution (business) / logistics
HSK 7-9
to alternate; to take turns
HSK 7-9
to be on the move / to roam or wander / to circulate (of goods or capital)
HSK 7-9
course / stream / sequence of processes / work flow in manufacturing
HSK 7-9
to flow
HSK 7-9
to bleed / to shed blood
HSK 7-9
to flow into / to drift into / influx / inflow
HSK 7-9
flow rate; throughput of passengers; volume of traffic / (hydrology) discharge / data traffic; network traffic; website traffic; mobile data
HSK 7-9
the stream flows without stopping (idiom); unending flow
HSK 7-9
to shed tears
HSK 7-9
passenger flow / customer flow
HSK 7-9
direction of a current / direction of flow / to flow toward
HSK 7-9
to drift about / to wander / to roam / nomadic / homeless / unsettled (e.g. population) / vagrant
HSK 7-9
stream of consciousness (in literature)
banquet where guests arrive at various times and are served with food as they arrive
lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene
continuous and patient effort (idiom)
destitute and homeless (idiom); displaced and without means
(linguistics) flow of speech
romance / romantic affair
fleeting time / horoscope for the year
inverter, device that converts AC electricity to DC and vice versa
to pass on errors or lies (idiom); the propagation of misconceptions
to drool; to salivate / (fig.) to covet; to lust after
late degenerate stage
to change (for the worse)
bleed hole / overflow pipe / spill vent
trickle
(after a personal attribute) people who have that attribute; people of that type
lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little
turbulence
qualities that make sth popular or fashionable / (of a disease) epidemic
tassels
main stream (of a river)
celebrity; public figure
to sail against the current / (fig.) to go against the flow
hydronuclear explosion (HNE)
electrical ballast
deep rooted and influential
enough blood flowing to float pestles (idiom); rivers of blood / blood bath
flow chart
to stream (online)
(geology) asthenosphere
to force into exile / to be exiled / in exile
(astronomy) bolide / fireball
lumen (unit of light flux) (loanword)
(slang) top-tier celebrity or influencer (abbr. for 頂級流量|顶级流量)
to spread poison / pernicious influence
(Tw) highway interchange / (fig.) channel of communication
small craftsman (contemptuous)
stray cat
outflow / to flow out / to drain
drift net (fishing)
brain drain
Shuangliu county in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan / Chengdu's main airport
cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream
to flow at great speed / to pour / racing current
an electric current / (old) current intensity
(idiom) suave; debonair; dashing
against the stream / adverse current / a countercurrent / fig. reactionary tendency / to go against the trend
laminar flow
cultural exchange
pop music
ammeter
(of time) to pass / to elapse
to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc) / to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
rectifier (transforming alternating electric current to direct current)
flowing; shifting / fluidity; mobility / liquidity (of funds)
gentry / celebrities
strong current / CL:
(Tw) debris flow / mudslide
river / stream
to exile / to banish / to deport / to float (logs) downstream
(literary) to salivate; to drool; (fig.) to crave sth hungrily
stray dog
Korean Wave, aka Hallyu (the increase in international interest in South Korea and its popular culture since the 1990s)
alternating current
tramp / wanderer
clean flowing water / (fig.) (literary) honorable person, untainted by association with disreputable influences / scholars who (in former times) kept themselves aloof from the corrupting influence of those in power

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