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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
distinguished and accomplished / outstanding / talented in letters and unconventional in lifestyle / romantic / dissolute / loose
HSK 7-9
upper class
HSK 7-9
river / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
distribution (business) / logistics
HSK 7-9
to alternate; to take turns
HSK 7-9
passenger flow / customer flow
HSK 7-9
lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little
stream of consciousness (in literature)
to stream (online)
against the stream / adverse current / a countercurrent / fig. reactionary tendency / to go against the trend
cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream
outflow / to flow out / to drain
lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene
an electric current / (old) current intensity
cultural exchange
to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc) / to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
gentry / celebrities
(Tw) debris flow / mudslide
river / stream
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
stream of people / abortion / abbr. for 人工流產|人工流产
stream of air / airflow / slipstream / draft / breath / turbulence (of aircraft)
warm current / (fig.) warm feeling
to overflow / transverse flow / to flow over / cross flow
a powerful current / a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas)
to flow backwards / reverse flow
to float on the current / to drift along or about / rafting
workflow
cash flow
turbulent flow
to flow back / reflux / circumfluence / refluence / backward flow / returning flow (e.g. of talent)
(of rivers etc) to converge / convergence
first-class
ocean current
to control flow / to choke / weir valve / a throttle / a choke
to draw off (liquid) / (medicine) to perform a drainage procedure / to attract traffic online
to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly
lit. head broken and blood flowing / fig. badly bruised
readily following good advice (idiom); willing to accept other people's views
stream
to piss one's pants in terror (idiom) / scared witless
to run dry (of river)
brain drain
trickle
strong current / CL:
tears and mucus flowing profusely / sniveling / in a tragic state
runoff
the lowest professions
to follow the crowd / going with the tide
to gush / to spurt
to commit to the waters (idiom); to lose sth irrevocably
able to reply quickly and fluently (idiom); having a ready answer
to spread / to hand down / to circulate
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
to gush / to spurt
main stream (of a river)
Shuangliu county in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan / Chengdu's main airport
atmospheric circulation
midstream
the passage of the years / the flow of time
convection
wasted effort
to follow admonition as natural flow (idiom); to accept criticism or correction (even from one's inferiors)
plume
undercurrent
swiftly flowing / torrent
to converge / to flow together / fig. to act alike / to evolve together
torrent / torrential current / whitewater
tears and mucus flowing profusely (idiom); weeping tragically
small craftsman (contemptuous)
to flow steadily / direct current (DC)
to flow at great speed / to pour / racing current
arms enough to stem the stream (idiom); formidable army
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
(of watercourses) source and course / origin and development
laminar flow
runoff
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.)
second-rate / second-tier
to exert flirtatious allure / to entice coquettishly
to live a hermit's life (in seclusion) / a frugal life (idiom)
variant of 漂流
(derog.) woman
tributary (river)
to respond fluently / to answer smartly
lit. clouds scatter, wind flows (idiom); the crisis settles down / people disperse home / things return to normal
hidden stream / ground stream
drainage
torrent
to rectify (alternating current to direct current)
landslide / torrent of mud and stones / mudslide
jet (math.)
late degenerate stage

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