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流行

liú xíng

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

流行 (liú xíng) means "popular; fashionable; in vogue". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 流行 means

1. (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate
2. (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable

The characters in 流行

• 流liúto flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread
• 行xíng(bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit…

Example sentences

• 红色不流行了。
  Red is out of fashion.
• 这不是很流行。
  This is not very stylish.
• 我喜欢流行音乐。
  Wǒ xǐhuan liúxíngyīnyuè.
  I like pop music.
• 我想要听流行音乐。
  Wǒ xiǎngyào tīng liúxíng yīnyuè.
  I'd like to listen to pop music.
• 现在长裙不流行了。
  Xiànzài chángqún bù liúxíng le.
  Long skirts are out of fashion now.
• 短裙已经不流行了。
  Short skirts are already out of fashion.

Words starting with 流行

• 流行病liú xíng bìngepidemic disease
• 流行语liú xíng yǔpopular jargon; catchword
• 流行性liú xíng xìngqualities that make sth popular or fashionable; (of a disease) epidemic
• 流行病学liú xíng bìng xuéepidemiology
• 流行音乐liú xíng yīn yuèpop music
• 流行性感冒liú xíng xìng gǎn màoinfluenza
• 流行株liú xíng zhūepidemic strain

Words containing 流行

• 大流行dà liú xíngmajor epidemic; pandemic

Sounds the same

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

• 流形manifold (math.)
• 流刑exile (as a form of punishment)

Where 流行 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Culture, arts & 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 xíng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.