liū
slide
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 留 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 溜
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to slip away | ||
to slip away | ||
to stroll | ||
ice skating | ||
like a wisp of smoke |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 16.6266% of movies
1601st most common character in movies
1923rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+6E9C |
Shuowen | “溜,水。出鬱林群。从水,留聲。” |
Sources
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