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流利

liú lì

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

流利 (liú lì) means "fluent". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 流利 means

1. fluent

The characters in 流利

• 流liúto flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread
• 利lìsharp; favorable; advantage

Example sentences

• 你英语说得很流利。
  You speak fluent English.
• 他能说流利的中文。
  He is fluent in Chinese.
• 她英语说得很流利。
  She speaks English very fluently.
• 她能说流利的英语。
  She can speak English very well.
• 他的英语多流利啊！
  His English is very fluent!
• 他能讲流利的日语。
  He's fluent in Japanese.

Sounds the same

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

• 流丽smooth and ornate; flowing (style etc)

Where 流利 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Language & media (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read liú lì correctly.
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