liú
flow
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 㐬 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
liú
flow, circulate, drift; class; to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread; to move or drift; to degenerate; to banish or send into exile; stream of water or sth resembling one; class, rate or grade
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ru | ljuw | liú | flow (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 69.3737% of movies
553rd most common character in movies
396th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+6D41 |
Shuowen | “,水行也。从沝、,,突忽也。流,篆文从水。” |
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