to exchange / exchange / communication / interaction / to have social contact (with sb)

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

distribution (business) / logistics

main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc)

top quality / front ranking

electric current

tide / current / trend

to flow steadily / direct current (DC)

river / CL: 條｜条

to float on the current / to drift along or about / rafting

alternative / non-mainstream

distinguished and accomplished / outstanding / talented in letters and unconventional in lifestyle / romantic / dissolute / loose

bypass

stream of people / abortion / abbr. for 人工流產｜人工流产

cash flow

the spread of Korean cultural products (TV dramas, pop music etc) to other countries / Korean Wave

Shuangliu county in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan / Chengdu's main airport

stream of air / airflow / slipstream / draft / breath / turbulence (of aircraft)

to drain / (medicine) drainage

to alternate / to take turns

to flow back / reflux / circumfluence / refluence / backward flow / returning flow (e.g. of talent)

convection

river / stream

against the stream / adverse current / a countercurrent / fig. reactionary tendency / to go against the trend

gentry / celebrities

data stream / data flow

to flow backwards / reverse flow

to rectify (alternating current to direct current)

medical abortion

stream

workflow

to control flow / to choke / weir valve / a throttle / a choke

Beiliu county level city in Yulin 玉林, Guangxi

landslide / torrent of mud and stones / mudslide

a powerful current / a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas)

Qingliu county in Sanming 三明, Fujian

undercurrent

to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly

traffic / rate of traffic flow

to overflow / transverse flow / to flow over / cross flow

outflow / to flow out / to drain

upper class

jet (math.)

(of rivers etc) to converge / convergence

torrent / torrential current / whitewater

main stream (of a river)

runoff

rotating flow

laminar flow

stream of consciousness (in literature)

tributary (river)

lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little

ocean current

(of watercourses) source and direction of flow / origin and development

lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene

turbulence

to flow at great speed / to pour / racing current

alternating current (electricity)

torrent

river / river flow / current

second-rate / second-tier

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

lit. head broken and blood flowing / fig. badly bruised

to seep / leakage

(derog.) woman

atmospheric circulation

midstream

cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream

warm current / (fig.) warm feeling

to converge / to flow together / fig. to act alike / to evolve together

to follow the crowd / going with the tide

celebrity / public figure

to gush / to spurt

flow of air / draft

to let sb do whatever they want / to indulge / to give free reins to / to let things slide / to drift aimlessly / laissez-faire

see 風水輪流轉｜风水轮流转

exchange of ideas

wake (trailing behind a ship, airplane etc) / slipstream

stream / flow of liquid

variant of 漂流

inward flowing (of river) / flowing into desert

to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)

to run dry (of river)

brain drain

swiftly flowing / torrent

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.)

able to reply quickly and fluently (idiom); having a ready answer

trickle

(PRC) flow of people from the countryside into the cities / rural migrant without definite prospects / drifter

turbulence (in fluid mechanics)

type A influenza / abbr. for 甲型H1N1流感 / refers to H1N1 influenza of 2009

bias current (electronics)

readily following good advice (idiom); willing to accept other people's views

wasted effort

to commit to the waters (idiom); to lose sth irrevocably

drainage

strong current / CL: 股

heat convection

turbulent flow

to piss in one's pants in terror (idiom); scared witless