to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread; to move or drift; to degenerate; to banish or send into exile; stream of water or sth resembling one; class, rate or grade

lower course of a river; low-class; mean and lowly; vulgar; obscene

top quality; front ranking

river; CL:條|条[tiao2]

river; stream

an electric current; (old) current intensity

stream of air; airflow; slipstream; draft; breath; turbulence (of aircraft)

to alternate; to take turns

tide; current; trend

distinguished and accomplished; outstanding; talented in letters and unconventional in lifestyle; romantic; dissolute; loose

to piss one's pants in terror (idiom); scared witless

main stream (of a river); fig. the essential point; main viewpoint of a matter; mainstream (culture etc)

blood flow

to float on the current; to drift along or about; rafting

ocean current

gentry; celebrities

upper class

third-rate; inferior

second-rate; second-tier

stream

to flow backwards; reverse flow

torrent

to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly

to flow at great speed; to pour; racing current

stream of people; abortion; abbr. for 人工流產|人工流产[ren2 gong1 liu2 chan3]

torrent; torrential current; whitewater

first-class

against the stream; adverse current; a countercurrent; fig. reactionary tendency; to go against the trend

the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家[Ru2 jia1], Daoists 道家[Dao4 jia1], Yin and Yang 陰陽家|阴阳家[Yin1 yang2 jia1], Legalists 法家[Fa3 jia1], Logicians 名家[Ming2 jia1], Mohists 墨家[Mo4 jia1], Diplomats 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1], Miscellaneous 雜家|杂家[Za2 jia1], and Agriculturalists 農家|农家[Nong2 jia1]

midstream

(Tw) (of music, video etc) to be streamed; (as a noun or attributive) streaming

type B influenza (abbr. for 乙型流感[yi3 xing2 liu2 gan3])

hidden stream; ground stream

to spread; to hand down; to circulate

inward flowing (of river); flowing into desert

to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc); to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)

see 北流市[Bei3 liu2 Shi4]

Shuangliu county in Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1], Sichuan; Chengdu's main airport

to converge; to flow together; fig. to act alike; to evolve together

to flow back; reflux; circumfluence; refluence; backward flow; returning flow (e.g. of talent)

outflow; to flow out; to drain

(derog.) woman

passenger flow; customer flow

cold air current; cold ocean current; cold stream

convection

jet (math.)

wake (trailing behind a ship, airplane etc); slipstream

laminar flow

branch stream