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川流不息

chuān liú bù xī

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

川流不息 (chuān liú bù xī) means "the stream flows without stopping (idiom); unending flow". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 川流不息 means

1. the stream flows without stopping (idiom); unending flow

The characters in 川流不息

• 川chuān(bound form) river; creek; plain
• 流liúto flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 息xībreath; news; interest (on an investment or loan)

Example sentences

• 移民川流不息地进入这个国家。
  Yímín chuānliúbùxī de jìnrù zhège guójiā.
  The immigrants entered the country in a steady flow.

Where 川流不息 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chuàn–zhuàn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chuān liú bù xī correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.