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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
to exchange / exchange / communication / interaction / to have social contact (with sb)
HSK 3
tide / current / trend
HSK 4
top quality / front ranking
HSK 5
main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc)
HSK 6
distribution (business) / logistics
HSK 7-9
passenger flow / customer flow
HSK 7-9
to alternate; to take turns
HSK 7-9
river / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
distinguished and accomplished / outstanding / talented in letters and unconventional in lifestyle / romantic / dissolute / loose
HSK 7-9
upper class
HSK 7-9
to control flow / to choke / weir valve / a throttle / a choke
Shuangliu county in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan / Chengdu's main airport
traffic / rate of traffic flow
to flow steadily / direct current (DC)
branch stream
to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc) / to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
to flow at great speed / to pour / racing current
river / stream
to flow back / reflux / circumfluence / refluence / backward flow / returning flow (e.g. of talent)
an electric current / (old) current intensity
to rectify (alternating current to direct current)
(derog.) woman
third-rate / inferior
gentry / celebrities
landslide / torrent of mud and stones / mudslide
stream of people / abortion / abbr. for 人工流產|人工流产
jet (math.)
(of watercourses) source and course / origin and development
Qingliu, a county in Sanming City 三明市, Fujian
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
(of rivers etc) to converge / convergence
a powerful current / a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas)
to draw off (liquid) / (medicine) to perform a drainage procedure / to attract traffic online
torrent / torrential current / whitewater
laminar flow
to ooze; to seep
lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene
second-rate / second-tier
against the stream / adverse current / a countercurrent / fig. reactionary tendency / to go against the trend
tributary (river)
to float on the current / to drift along or about / rafting
to overflow / transverse flow / to flow over / cross flow
stream of air / airflow / slipstream / draft / breath / turbulence (of aircraft)
turbulence
warm current / (fig.) warm feeling
lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little
stream
runoff
cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream
to converge / to flow together / fig. to act alike / to evolve together
outflow / to flow out / to drain
midstream
readily following good advice (idiom); willing to accept other people's views
to run dry (of river)
Korean Wave, aka Hallyu (the increase in international interest in South Korea and its popular culture since the 1990s)
torrent
lit. head broken and blood flowing / fig. badly bruised
to gush / to spurt
rotating flow
to flow backwards / reverse flow
lit. to open a water source and reduce outflow (idiom); to increase income and save on spending / to broaden the sources of income and economize on expenditure
ocean current
undercurrent
the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
wasted effort
to let sb do whatever they want / to indulge / to give free reins to / to let things slide / to drift aimlessly / laissez-faire
able to reply quickly and fluently (idiom); having a ready answer
to commit to the waters (idiom); to lose sth irrevocably
late degenerate stage
turbid flow / muddy waters / fig. a contemptible person / fig. corrupt or disgraceful social trends
arms enough to stem the stream (idiom); formidable army
(PRC) flow of people from the countryside into the cities / rural migrant without definite prospects / drifter
hidden stream / ground stream
(slang) top-tier celebrity or influencer (abbr. for 頂級流量|顶级流量)
variant of 漂流
(linguistics) flow of speech
workflow
to stream (online)
the spread of Japanese cultural products (anime, pop music etc) to other countries
the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家, Daoists 道家, Yin and Yang 陰陽家|阴阳家, Legalists 法家, Logicians 名家, Mohists 墨家, Diplomats 縱橫家|纵横家, Miscellaneous 雜家|杂家, and Agriculturalists 農家|农家
data stream / data flow
first-class
to limit the flow of passengers, customers or vehicles / to limit the spread of sensitive content / (electricity) current limiting / (computer networking) rate limiting
turbulent flow
stream of consciousness (in literature)
high current (e.g. electric)
to kill and banish
to rinse one's mouth with river water / (fig.) to live a hermit's life
small craftsman (contemptuous)
mountain stream / stream in a valley
the lowest professions
cash flow
turbulence (in fluid mechanics)
swiftly flowing / torrent
to gush / to spurt
strong current / CL:

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