HSK 2 · Meeting & staying

流

liú

to flow

Stroke order of 流

流 is written with 10 strokes. Watch the animation, then try writing it yourself.

Memory trick

Water 氵 plus a baby upside down 㐬 sliding out: liquid flows.

Parts: 氵 water + 㐬 flowing sound/shape

Example sentence

眼泪从脸上流下来。

Tears flowed down his face.

Words with 流

流利fluent 流行popular; fashionable 交流to communicate; exchange

More words: Meeting & staying

见到to see; to meet 见过to have seen 碰到to run into 碰见to run into 留to stay; to keep 留下to stay; to leave behind 分开to separate 占to occupy; to take up 气air; to anger 长to grow; head; chief 当to act as; when 才only then; just 提出to put forward 提到to mention 行动action; to act 行为behaviour

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