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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 spread / to circulate / to hand down
HSK 4
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
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
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
to reveal (indirectly, implicitly) / to show (interest, contempt etc) by means of one's actions, tone of voice etc
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
to shed tears
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
banquet where guests arrive at various times and are served with food as they arrive
destitute and homeless (idiom); displaced and without means
fleeting time / horoscope for the year
to drool; to salivate / (fig.) to covet; to lust after
to change (for the worse)
qualities that make sth popular or fashionable / (of a disease) epidemic
tassels
hydronuclear explosion (HNE)
flow chart
to force into exile / to be exiled / in exile
lumen (unit of light flux) (loanword)
to spread poison / pernicious influence
stray cat
drift net (fishing)
pop music
(of time) to pass / to elapse
flowing; shifting / fluidity; mobility / liquidity (of funds)
to exile / to banish / to deport / to float (logs) downstream
(literary) to salivate; to drool; (fig.) to crave sth hungrily
stray dog
tramp / wanderer
tributary (stream) / (fig.) school (of thought) / genre / style
to flow and change / development and change (of society)
to skim / to browse
kitchen counter (generally including sink, food preparation area and gas range) (Tw)
firefly
meteor; shooting star / meteor hammer (abbr. for 流星錘|流星锤)
streamline (physics)
rheology
to linger / to remain enjoying oneself and forget to go home
to wander about destitute / to be stranded
money in circulation / fluid funds
to sweat
rumors and slanders (idiom); gossip / lies and slanders
(financial reporting) current assets / liquid assets
sleek / streamlined
to roam all over the place / to go into every nook and corner; to infiltrate / (of criminals, enemies etc) to be on the run; to flee and try to hide
(of an auction) to be inconclusive
epidemic disease
quicksand / (patisserie) (usu. attributive) semi-liquid filling (typically custard); lava
transient population / floating population
to become a mere formality
meteor hammer (ancient weapon consisting of two iron balls connected by a chain)
(of an item) to fail to sell at an auction
to float / to tramp / to rove
branch (of a river) / school (of thought)
government-in-exile
assembly line / (computing) pipeline
to flow out / to disgorge / to effuse
fluid mechanics / hydrodynamics
popular jargon / catchword
to flow / to flood
hooliganism / rowdyism
destitute and homeless (idiom); forced from one's home and wandering about / displaced
stray bullet
rumor / gossip / to spread rumors
to let one's eyes rove
homeless and miserable / forced to leave home and wander from place to place / to live as a refugee
lit. a meteor catching up with the moon / swift action (idiom)
streaming media
refugee
a contemporary / similar class of people
lit. flowing water does not rot, nor a door-hinge rust (idiom) / fig. constant activity prevents decay
rhyolite (extrusive igneous rock, chemically equivalent to granite)
to loiter (i.e. reluctant to leave) / to linger on
to leave a good reputation
flow speed / rate of flow
the unemployed workforce
manifold (math.)
street urchin / waif
prevalent fashion (often used pejoratively) / vulgar customs
lumpenproletariat (in Marxist theory)
to wander far from home
the Ryukyu or Luchu Islands (including Okinawa)
exile (as form of punishment)
roving bandit / rebel band
to circulate / to hand around

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