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flood / flood damage
HSK 5
deluge; flood
HSK 6
spam flooding
to be full of / to flood / to congest
vast / expansive (universe) / torrential (floods)
flood season
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  *淹* | 淹* | *淹
to flood / to submerge / to drown / to irritate the skin (of liquids) / to delay
HSK 7-9
Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC) mythical leader who tamed the floods
to overflow; to inundate; to flood / (fig.) to proliferate unchecked
HSK 7-9
to flood (on an Internet forum etc)
pouring / flooding
to flow / to flood
flood / inundation / flooding
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  *泻* | 泻* | *泻
to flow out swiftly / to flood / a torrent / diarrhea / laxative
HSK 7-9
lit. severe floods and fierce beasts (idiom) / fig. great scourges / extremely dangerous or threatening things
(idiom) to have flooding over a vast area
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  *泛* | 泛* | *泛
(bound form) general / non-specific / extensive / pan- / to flood / (literary) to float about / to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
to fight a flood
summer flood
to separate flood / flood defense
flood control / flood prevention
legendary dragon with the ability to control rain and floods
to drain flood-water
flood control / anti-flood (precautions)
HSK 7-9
a sudden, violent flood / flash flood
to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc) / reverse flow / to back up (sewage)
spring flood
secondary disaster (e.g. epidemic following floods)
a powerful current / a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas)
flooding; inundation
to release flood water / flood discharge
to march straight in unchallenged (military) (idiom) / (fig.) to push deep into the heart of sth / to flood in
in floods of tears (idiom)
ice-jam flood (arising when river downstream freezes more than upstream)
fire and flood have no mercy (idiom)
lit. surging waters flooded the Dragon King temple (idiom) / fig. to fail to recognize a familiar person / a dispute between close people who fail to recognize each other
defenses against floods
spring flood (at peach-blossom time)
flood season
flood of good fortune fills the heavens (idiom); a lucky sign
sluice-gate / flood discharge valve
a flood of tears and mucus / broken-hearted and weeping bitterly
to flood
only met with once every hundred years (drought, flood etc)
to be flooded
to submerge / to flood / to bury
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *涝* | 涝* | *涝
flooded
HSK 7-9
to provide a stable crop, regardless of drought or flood / to bring a stable income
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  *禹* | 禹* | *禹
Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods / surname Yu
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  *潦* | 潦* | *潦
flooded / heavy rain
(agriculture) to have no harvest (due to flooding, diseases etc)
flood season
to drain flooded fields
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  *蛟* | 蛟* | *蛟
a legendary dragon with the ability to control rain and floods / see also 蛟龍|蛟龙
to have water get in (one's ear, shoes etc) / to get flooded / inflow of water
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  *洪* | 洪* | *洪
flood / big / great
to submerge / to flood / to drown out
spring flood (at peach-blossom time)
flood
lit. to flood (idiom) / fig. rampant / in plague proportions
autumn flood
Huang He Inundated Area, the area flooded in 1938 when dikes along the Yellow River were destroyed in an attempt to halt the advance of Japanese troops / (historically) Huang He floodable area
Ji River, former river of north-eastern China which disappeared after the Yellow River flooded in 1852
flood damage
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  *洚* | 洚* | *洚
flood
flood
to submerge / to drown / to flood / to drown out (also fig.)
water levels during the flood season
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  *汛* | 汛* | *汛
high water / flood / to sprinkle water
catastrophism (theory that geological changes are brought about by catastrophes such as the biblical flood)
flood peak
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *淼* | 淼* | *淼
a flood / infinity
catastrophism / the theory that geological change is caused by catastrophic events such as the Biblical flood
to warp (fertilize land by flooding)
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  *淊* | 淊* | *淊
variant of / to flood


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