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流域

liú yù

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

流域 (liú yù) means "river basin; valley; drainage area". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 流域 means

1. river basin
2. valley
3. drainage area

The characters in 流域

• 流liúto flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread
• 域yùfield; region; area

Words containing 流域

• 两河流域Liǎng hé Liú yùMesopotamia
• 黄河流域Huáng Hé liú yùthe Yellow River basin
• 墨累达令流域Mò lèi Dá lìng liú yùMurray-Darling river system in the southeast of Australia
• 长江流域Cháng jiāng liú yùChangjiang or Yangtze river basin

Sounds the same

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

• 刘裕Liu Yu, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 刘宋

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