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支流

zhī liú

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

支流 (zhī liú) means "tributary (river)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 支流 means

1. tributary (river)

The characters in 支流

• 支zhīto support; to sustain; to erect
• 流liúto flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread

Example sentences

• 亚马逊河有很多支流。
  Yàmǎxùn Hé yǒu hěn duō zhīliú.
  The Amazon is fed by a large number of tributaries.

Where 支流 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhèng–zhī (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 zhī liú correctly.
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