liú

clear

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

劉 sound component

  Sound component

liú

  

surname

Evolution

瀏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瀏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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liú

clear; bright; whistling; deep (of water); swift

Most common words with 瀏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

浏览

to skim over

浏览器

browser (software)

浏阳

Liuyang county level city in Changsha 長沙|长沙[Cháng​shā], Hunan

clear

浏阳市

Liuyang county level city in Changsha 長沙|长沙[Cháng​shā], Hunan

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.1784% of movies

3006th most common character in movies

2841st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+700F

Shuowen

“瀏,流清皃。从水,劉聲。《詩》曰:‘瀏其清矣。’”


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