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潮流

cháo liú

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

潮流 (cháo liú) means "tide, trend". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 潮流 means

1. tide
2. current
3. trend

The characters in 潮流

• 潮cháotide; damp; moist; humid; fashionable; trendy
• 流liúto flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread

Example sentences

• 她是潮流的奴隶。
  She is a slave of fashion.
• 今年的时尚潮流完全不同于去年。
  Jīnnián de shíshàng cháoliú wánquán bù tóng yú qùnián.
  This year's fashions are completely different from last year's.
• 跟上最近潮流时尚是件非常花钱的事儿。
  Gēnshàng zuì jìn cháoliú shíshàng shì jiàn fēicháng huāqián de shìr.
  It is very expensive to keep up with the latest fashions.
• 纽约市出现了一种新的艺术潮流，将古老的钩编工艺带到了街头。在那里，传统上，墙壁和栅栏一直是涂鸦艺术家的画布。
  A new art trend in New York City takes the age-old craft of crocheting to the streets, where traditionally walls and fences have been serving as canvases for graffiti artists.
• 「我认为提姆霍顿斯咖啡馆和星巴克咖啡馆的菜单上应该有蓝莓冰茶。」「这主意太棒了！蓝莓冰茶正好赶上了水果茶的潮流。水果茶甜味中略带酸味。提姆霍顿斯可以利用已有的浑厚冰茶基础，而星巴克可以很容易地将蓝莓冰茶融入他们的摇匀冰茶和清凉饮料系列中。」
  "I think that Tim Hortons café and Starbucks café should have blueberry iced tea on their menu." "That's a refreshing idea! A blueberry iced tea would fit perfectly with the trend of fruit-infused teas that balance sweetness with a bit of tartness. Tim Hortons already has a strong iced tea base they could use, while Starbucks could easily fold it into their lineup of shaken iced teas and refreshers."

Where 潮流 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chàng–zhāo (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 cháo liú correctly.
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