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Exact character matches appear first. Pinyin matches whole syllables in headword pronunciations. Common exact readings come before common compounds, followed by less frequent or restricted readings. Direct English meanings rank ahead of mentions in longer definitions.

Frequency data from Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare.

大流行dà liú xíng

major epidemic / pandemic

女流nǚ liú

(derog.) woman

客流kè liú

passenger flow / customer flow

富得流油fù de liú yóu

affluent / very rich

寒流hán liú

cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream

射流shè liú

jet (math.)

对流duì liú

convection

对流层duì liú céng

(meteorology) troposphere

对流层顶duì liú céng dǐng

tropopause / top of troposphere

对答如流duì dá rú liú

able to reply quickly and fluently (idiom) / having a ready answer

导流板dǎo liú bǎn

spoiler (automotive)

小桥流水xiǎo qiáo liú shuǐ

a small bridge over a flowing stream

尾流wěi liú

wake (trailing behind a ship, airplane etc) / slipstream

屁滚尿流pì gǔn niào liú

to piss one's pants in terror (idiom) / scared witless

层流céng liú

laminar flow

岔流chà liú

branch stream

岩流圈yán liú quān

(geology) asthenosphere

岩浆流yán jiāng liú

lava flow

川流不息chuān liú bù xī

the stream flows without stopping (idiom) / unending flow

工作流gōng zuò liú

workflow

工作流程gōng zuò liú chéng

workflow

巨流jù liú

strong current / CL:股[gǔ]

平流层píng liú céng

stratosphere

干流gàn liú

main stream (of a river)

引流yǐn liú

to draw off (liquid) / (medicine) to perform a drainage procedure / to attract traffic online

强流qiáng liú

high current (e.g. electric)

从善如流cóng shàn rú liú

readily following good advice (idiom) / willing to accept other people's views

从谏如流cóng jiàn rú liú

to follow admonition as natural flow (idiom) / to accept criticism or correction (even from one's inferiors)

心流xīn liú

(psychology) flow / being "in the zone"

快步流星kuài bù liú xīng

to walk quickly / striding quickly

思想交流sī xiǎng jiāo liú

exchange of ideas

意识流yì shí liú

stream of consciousness (in literature)

应对如流yìng duì rú liú

to respond fluently / to answer smartly

批流年pī liú nián

to cast sb's yearly horoscope

投鞭断流tóu biān duàn liú

arms enough to stem the stream (idiom) / formidable army

扰流板rǎo liú bǎn

spoiler (automotive or aeronautical)

支与流裔zhī yǔ liú yì

lit. branches and descendants / of a similar kind / related

整流zhěng liú

to rectify (alternating current to direct current)

整流器zhěng liú qì

rectifier (transforming alternating electric current to direct current)

整流罩zhěng liú zhào

fairing

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