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- 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
- to exchange
- exchange
- communication
- interaction
- to have social contact (with sb)
Trad. 氣流
- stream of air
- airflow
- slipstream
- draft
- breath
- turbulence (of aircraft)
Trad. 風流
- distinguished and accomplished
- outstanding
- talented in letters and unconventional in lifestyle
- romantic
- dissolute
- loose
Trad. 流動
- to flow
- to circulate
- to go from place to place
- to be mobile
- (of assets) liquid
Trad. 濁流
- turbid flow
- muddy waters
- fig. a contemptible person
- fig. corrupt or disgraceful social trends
- (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
- to conserve mobile data; to minimize mobile data usage (abbr. for 省流量[sheng3 liu2 liang4])
- 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
- to draw off (liquid)
- (medicine) to perform a drainage procedure
- to attract traffic online
- meteor; shooting star
- meteor hammer (abbr. for 流星錘|流星锤[liu2 xing1 chui2])
- main stream (of a river)
- fig. the essential point
- main viewpoint of a matter
- mainstream (culture etc)
- quicksand
- (patisserie) (usu. attributive) semi-liquid filling (typically custard); lava
- to drift about
- to wander
- to roam
- nomadic
- homeless
- unsettled (e.g. population)
- vagrant
Trad. 雙流
- Shuangliu county in Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1], Sichuan
- Chengdu's main airport
- variant of 琉球[Liu2 qiu2], Ryūkyū, e.g. the Ryūkyū Islands 琉球群島|琉球群岛[Liu2 qiu2 Qun2 dao3] stretching from Japan to Taiwan
- to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc)
- to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
Trad. 流竄
- 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
- to limit the flow of passengers, customers or vehicles
- to limit the spread of sensitive content
- (electricity) current limiting
- (computer networking) rate limiting
Trad. 流腦
- epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis (abbr. for 流行性腦膜炎|流行性脑膜炎[liu2 xing2 xing4 nao3 mo2 yan2])
- (of a contagious disease etc) to spread
- to propagate
- (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular
- fashionable
Trad. 頂流
- (slang) top-tier celebrity or influencer (abbr. for 頂級流量|顶级流量[ding3 ji2 liu2 liang4])
Trad. 流調
- epidemiological survey (abbr. for 流行病學調查|流行病学调查[liu2 xing2 bing4 xue2 diao4 cha2])
- the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家[Ru2 jia1], Daoists 道家[Dao4 jia1], Yin and Yang 陰陽家|阴阳家[Yin1 yang2 jia1], Legalists 法家[Fa3 jia1], Logicians 名家[Ming2 jia1], Mohists 墨家[Mo4 jia1], Diplomats 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1], Miscellaneous 雜家|杂家[Za2 jia1], and Agriculturalists 農家|农家[Nong2 jia1]
Trad. 流轉
- to be on the move
- to roam or wander
- to circulate (of goods or capital)
- flow rate; throughput of passengers; volume of traffic
- (hydrology) discharge
- data traffic; network traffic; website traffic; mobile data
Trad. 流離
- homeless and miserable
- forced to leave home and wander from place to place
- to live as a refugee
- to reveal (indirectly, implicitly)
- to show (interest, contempt etc) by means of one's actions, tone of voice etc
- (after a personal attribute) people who have that attribute; people of that type
- (Tw) (of music, video etc) to be streamed; (as a noun or attributive) streaming
- to flow back
- reflux
- circumfluence
- refluence
- backward flow
- returning flow (e.g. of talent)
Trad. 韓流
- Korean Wave, aka Hallyu (the increase in international interest in South Korea and its popular culture since the 1990s)
- the spread of Japanese cultural products (anime, pop music etc) to other countries
- (PRC) flow of people from the countryside into the cities
- rural migrant without definite prospects
- drifter
- against the stream
- adverse current
- a countercurrent
- fig. reactionary tendency
- to go against the trend
Trad. 雙一流
- Double First-Class University Plan, Chinese government project to develop both a group of Chinese universities and a group of subject disciplines to be world-class by 2050, implemented from 2017
Trad. 風流債
- lit. love debt
- fig. moral obligation in consequence of a love affair
- karmic consequences of a love affair
Trad. 流動性
- flowing; shifting
- fluidity; mobility
- liquidity (of funds)
- Beiliu, a county-level city in Yulin City 玉林市[Yu4 lin2 Shi4], Guangxi
Trad. 清流縣
- Qingliu, a county in Sanming City 三明市[San1 ming2 Shi4], Fujian