"Flowing" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 liú chàng flowing (of speech, writing) / fluent / smooth and easy
 liú dòng xìng flowing / shifting / fluidity / mobility / liquidity (of funds)
 yáng yáng sǎ sǎ voluminous / flowing (of speeches, articles etc) (idiom)
 hàng a ferry / fog / flowing
 diē dàng zhāo zhāng flowing (of prose) / free
 jiē flowing (of water)
L dòng L flowing / flexible / lively (Internet slang)
 liú lì smooth and ornate / flowing (style etc)
 shū tōng to unblock / to dredge / to clear the way / to get things flowing / to facilitate / to mediate / to lobby / to explicate (a text)
 sì yì (of a perfume or a foul odor) permeating the whole place / (of grease etc) dripping everywhere / flowing all over the place
 rè qián hot money, money flowing from one currency to another in the hope of quick profit
 Hǎi hé Hai He (a system of five waterways around Tianjin, flowing into Bohai 渤海 / at Dagukou 大沽口)
 xíng yún liú shuǐ lit. moving clouds and flowing water (idiom) / fig. very natural and flowing style of calligraphy, writing, etc / natural and unforced
 tóu pò xuè liú lit. head broken and blood flowing / fig. badly bruised
 gǔ gǔ (onom.) gurgling sound of flowing water
 liú guāng yì cǎi lit. flowing light and overflowing color / brilliant lights and vibrant colors (idiom)
 liǎng xiù qīng fēng lit. both sleeves flowing in the breeze (idiom) / having clean hands / uncorrupted / unsoiled by corrupt practices
 shuǐ xiù flowing sleeves (part of theatrical costume)
 huā (onom.) bang / clang / sound of gurgling, splashing or flowing water / (interjection expressing surprise) wow
 dié flowing flood / to chatter
 Lǐ Lishui River in north Hunan, flowing into Lake Dongting 洞庭湖 / surname Li
 líng sound of water flowing
 pén flowing of water / name of a river
 xiù sleeve / ample flowing robes
 liú shuǐ bù fǔ flowing water does not rot
 tì sì héng liú tears and mucus flowing profusely / sniveling / in a tragic state
 tì sì zòng héng tears and mucus flowing profusely / sniveling / in a tragic state
 tì lèi jiāo liú tears and mucus flowing profusely (idiom) / weeping tragically
 xuè liú piāo chǔ enough blood flowing to float pestles (idiom) / rivers of blood / blood bath
 biāo flowing of water
 jiàn flowing water / successive
 cóng gather / flow into (water) / sound of waters flowing together
 Lǐ shuǐ Lishui river in north Hunan, flowing into Lake Dongting 洞庭湖
 nèi liú inward flowing (of river) / flowing into desert
 nèi liú hé inward flowing river / river flowing into desert or salt lake, e.g. Tarim river 塔里木河
 dòng L flowing / flexible / lively (internet slang)
 Yuán jiāng river in Hunan, flowing into Lake Dongting 洞庭湖 / Yuanjiang, county-level city in Yiyang 益陽|益阳[Yi4 yang2], Hunan
 liú shuǐ bù fǔ , hù shū bù dù lit. flowing water does not rot, nor a door-hinge rust (idiom) / fig. constant activity prevents decay
 Qīng liú 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
 tián (literary) smoothly flowing, placid (water)
 tián tián (literary) smoothly flowing, placid (water)
 Huáng shuǐ Huangshui River, upper reaches of the Yellow River 黃河|黄河[Huang2 He2], flowing through Qinghai and Gansu
 zhū liú fluent with words / words flowing like pearl beads
 Sà ěr wēn jiāng Salween river, flowing from Tibet into Myanmar
 Xī ěr Hé Syr Darya, Central Asian river, flowing from Kyrgiz Republic through Kazakhstan to the Aral sea
 A1 mǔ Hé Amu Darya, the biggest river of Central Asia, from Pamir to Aral sea, forming the boundary between Afghanistan and Tajikistan then flowing through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan / formerly called Oxus by Greek and Western writers, and Gihon by medieval Islamic writers
 E2 ěr qí sī Hé Irtysh River, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to the Arctic Ocean
 Sà wǎ Hé Sava River, flowing through Southeast Europe
 liú yùn musical sound / flowing rhythm (of poetry) / cadence
 shǐ liú swiftly flowing / torrent
 mǐ (used to describe flowing water)
 fēng (onom.) sound of flowing water / sound of wind / Taiwan pr. [feng2]
 Tǎ lā sī Hé Talas River, originating in Kyrgyzstan and flowing west into Kazakhstan
 xiǎo qiáo liú shuǐ a small bridge over a flowing stream
 chōng (literary) (of a mountain stream) to flow down / (onom.) sound of flowing water
 Jiā Hé Jia River, originating in Shandong and flowing through Jiangsu into the Grand Canal
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