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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.

现金流转xiàn jīn liú zhuǎn

cash flow

现金流转表xiàn jīn liú zhuǎn biǎo

cash flow statement

现金流量xiàn jīn liú liàng

cash flow

现金流量表xiàn jīn liú liàng biǎo

cash flow statement

甲流jiǎ liú

type A influenza (abbr. for 甲型流感[jiǎ xíng liú gǎn]) / (in the context of the 2009 pandemic) H1N1 influenza

盲流máng liú

(PRC) flow of people from the countryside into the cities / rural migrant without definite prospects / drifter

直流电zhí liú diàn

direct current

省流shěng liú

to conserve mobile data / to minimize mobile data usage (abbr. for 省流量[shěng liú liàng])

积厚流广jī hòu liú guǎng

deep rooted and influential

空气流kōng qì liú

flow of air / draft

空气流通kōng qì liú tōng

ventilation / air circulation

节流jié liú

to control flow / to choke / weir valve / a throttle / a choke

节流踏板jié liú tà bǎn

throttle pedal / accelerator

节流阀jié liú fá

a throttle

粒子流lì zǐ liú

stream of particles / particle flow

紊流wěn liú

turbulent flow

细水长流xì shuǐ cháng liú

lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little

绕流rào liú

turbulence (in fluid mechanics)

羽流yǔ liú

plume

者流zhě liú

(after a personal attribute) people who have that attribute / people of that type

肥水不流外人田féi shuǐ bù liú wài rén tián

lit. don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field / fig. keep the goodies within the family (proverb)

落花有意,流水无情luò huā yǒu yì , liú shuǐ wú qíng

lit. the falling flowers are yearning for love, but the heartless brook ripples on (idiom) / fig. one side is willing, yet the other one remains indifferent (usually of unrequited love)

落花流水luò huā liú shuǐ

to be in a sorry state / to be utterly defeated

药流yào liú

medical abortion

蜚短流长fēi duǎn liú cháng

(idiom) to gossip about others / to spread gossip or rumors

血流成河xuè liú chéng hé

rivers of blood (idiom) / bloodbath

血流漂杵xuè liú piāo chǔ

enough blood flowing to float pestles (idiom) / rivers of blood / blood bath

诛流zhū liú

to kill and banish

语流yǔ liú

(linguistics) flow of speech

谬种流传miù zhǒng liú chuán

to pass on errors or lies (idiom) / the propagation of misconceptions

变流器biàn liú qì

converter

猪流感zhū liú gǎn

swine influenza / swine flu / influenza A (H1N1)

猪流感病毒zhū liú gǎn bìng dú

swine influenza virus (SIV)

卖风流mài fēng liú

to exert flirtatious allure / to entice coquettishly

赤道逆流chì dào nì liú

equatorial counter current

软流圈ruǎn liú quān

(geology) asthenosphere

软流层ruǎn liú céng

(geology) asthenosphere

迸流bèng liú

to gush / to spurt

逆流溯源nì liú sù yuán

to go back to the source

逆流而上nì liú ér shàng

to sail against the current / (fig.) to go against the flow

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