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liú
HSK 2freq #1337

Meanings

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liú
  1. 1.to flow
  2. 2.to disseminate
  3. 3.to circulate or spread
  4. 4.to move or drift
  5. 5.to degenerate
  6. 6.to banish or send into exile
  7. 7.stream of water or sth resembling one
  8. 8.class, rate or grade

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to flow
  2. 2.to drift; to wander
  3. 3.class; grade
  4. 4.current; flow; stream
  5. 5.to spread; to scatter; to disseminate
  6. 6.flow
  7. 7.stream
  8. 8.of poor quality
  9. 9.fake; ingenuine

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ru): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 㐬. Cognate with Tibetan རྒྱུ་ (rgyu, “to move, to go, to wander”) (Hill, 2019); the root would be Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rju.

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