Dictionary › 流氓

流氓

liú máng

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

流氓 (liú máng) means "rogue; hoodlum; gangster". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 流氓 means

1. rogue
2. hoodlum
3. gangster
4. immoral behavior

The characters in 流氓

• 流liúto flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread
• 氓mángused in 流氓

Example sentences

• 该名青年将少女从流氓团伙中救了出来。
  Gāi míng qīngnián jiāng shàonǚ cóng liúmáng tuánhuǒ zhōng jiù le chūlái.
  The young man saved the girl from a bunch of hoodlums.
• 在二十世纪末期，南斯拉夫被美国认为是一个流氓国家。
  Zài èrshíshìjì mòqī, Nánsīlāfū bèi Měiguó rènwéi shì yī gè liúmángguójiā.
  In the late 20th century, Yugoslavia was considered a rogue state by the United States.
• "侏儒流氓"是德国导演韦纳荷索在一九七零年的一部电影。
  Even Dwarfs Started Small is a 1970 film by German director Werner Herzog.

Words starting with 流氓

• 流氓罪liú máng zuìthe crime of hooliganism
• 流氓国家liú máng guó jiārogue state
• 流氓软件liú máng ruǎn jiànmalware (computing)
• 流氓集团liú máng jí tuángang of hoodlums
• 流氓无产者liú máng wú chǎn zhělumpenproletariat (in Marxist theory)

Where 流氓 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · liū–lōu (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 liú máng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.