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河流

hé liú

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 条

河流 (hé liú) means "river". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 河流 means

1. river

The characters in 河流

• 河hériver; (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way
• 流liúto flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread

Example sentences

• 那条河流很长。
  That river is long.
• 这条路与河流平行。
  Zhè tiáo lù yǔ héliú píngxíng.
  The road is parallel to the river.
• 地图上的蓝线代表河流。
  The blue lines on the map represent rivers.
• 密西西比河流经哪个城市？
  Mìxīxībǐ Hé liú jīng nǎge chéngshì?
  Through which city does the Mississippi River pass?
• 儿童应该远离河流。有危险。
  értóng yīnggāi yuǎnlí héliú. yǒu wēixiǎn.
  Children should keep away from the river. It's dangerous.
• 他们建了一座横跨河流的桥。
  Tāmen jiàn le yī zuò héngkuà héliú de qiáo.
  They built a bridge across the river.

Words containing 河流

• 两河流域Liǎng hé Liú yùMesopotamia
• 黄河流域Huáng Hé liú yùthe Yellow River basin

Sounds the same

Read hé liú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 合流to converge; to flow together; fig. to act alike

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