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轮流

lún liú

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 輪流

轮流 (lún liú) means "to take turns". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 轮流 means

1. to alternate; to take turns

The characters in 轮流

• 轮lúnwheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate
• 流liúto flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread

Example sentences

• 我们轮流驾驶。
  We took turns with the driving.
• 我们轮流开车。
  We took turns driving the car.
• 让我们轮流写吧。
  Ràng wǒmen lúnliú xiě ba.
  Let's write in turns.
• 让我们轮流划船。
  Ràng wǒmen lúnliú huáchuán.
  Let's take turns rowing the boat.
• 他们会轮流教课。
  Tāmen huì lúnliú jiāokè.
  They'll be taking turns teaching the class.
• 我们轮流划船吧。
  Let's take turns rowing the boat.

Words containing 轮流

• 风水轮流转fēng shuǐ lún liú zhuànfortunes rise and fall; times change
• 风水轮流fēng shuǐ lún liúsee 风水轮流转

Where 轮流 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Miscellaneous Objects, Places & Terms B (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lún liú correctly.
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