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流

liú

flow

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 㐬 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

㐬 sound,iconic component

㐬  Sound Iconic component

liú

  

birth

Depicts an upside-down child (子) being born headfirst with amniotic fluid flowing out.

Evolution

流 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
流 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
流 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
流 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

流  

liú

flow, circulate, drift; class; 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

Most common words with 流
Freq.
Word
Meaning

流

to flow

交流

to exchange

流行

to propagate

流通

to circulate

流血

to bleed

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

鎏

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

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ljuw

liú

flow (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 69.3737% of movies

553rd most common character in movies

396th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6D41

Shuowen

“，水行也。从沝、，，突忽也。流，篆文从水。”


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