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› 流
流
lau4
Mandarin: liu2
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1
to flow
2
to disseminate
3
to circulate or spread
4
to move or drift
5
to degenerate
6
to banish or send into exile
7
stream of water or sth resembling one
8
class, rate or grade
9
fake
10
false
11
inferior
12
unreal
13
without status
14
influence
15
name of a triad poem used as a way to identify someone as a triad member
16
# adapted from cc-cedict
Other Readings
流
lau4
[[to flow]] | làuh 流 — unreal, false, "fake"; without status or influence;
Words containing 流
急流
gap1
lau4
torrent; rapids [Syn.] 激流 , 急湍
潮流嘅趨勢
ciu4
lau4
ge3
ceoi1
sai3
trend
流浪漢
lau4
long6
hon3
tramp, wanderer, vagrant
流千張
lau4
cin1
zoeng1
counterfeit bank notes [colloquial]
流程
lau4
cing4
flow; technological process
流利
lau4
lei6
fluent, eloquent (of speech)
汗流浹背
hon6
lau4
zip3
bui3
be soaked in sweat
相電流
soeng3
din6
lau4
phase current
唔發火當我流
m4
faat3
fo2
dong3
ngo5
lau4
to take me as some kind of wimp that does not need to be taken seriously just be
風水輪流轉
fung1
seoi2
leon4
lau4
zyun2
fortunes change (lit., "wheel of fortune turns")
白水漂流
baak6
seoi2
piu1
lau4
white water rafting | Also written as '白水飄流'
直流電源
zik6
lau4
din6
jyun4
DC power supply
流感
lau4
gam2
flu - shortened form of 流行性感冒 (influenza)
社會名流
se5
wui6*2
ming4
lau4
[n] socialite
流行榜
lau4
hang4
bong2
the charts
流花路
lau4
faa3
lou6
Liuhua Lu, the name of a road in Guangdong, China
歲月如流
seoi3
jyut6
jyu4
lau4
the passage of the years; the flow of time
長流流
coeng4
lau4
lau4
long (period of time)
獅子座流星
si1
zi2
zo6
lau4
sing1
Leonid meteors
H5N1禽流感
H
ng5
en1
jat1
kam4
lau4
gam2
the H5N1 strain of avian flu [written and colloquial]
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