CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

下流

xiàliú

lower course of a river

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

lower course of a river

low-class

mean and lowly

vulgar

obscene

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 下流 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 下流 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我不讨厌听你说些下流的话。wǒ bù tǎo yàn tīng nǐ shuō xiē xià liú de huà。

I like it when you talk dirty to me!

水从喷泉中涌出，在溪流中向下流，在溪涧中奔走，在池塘中安定，在河流中顺势流，在漩涡中回旋，并形成沼泽。shuǐ cóng pēn quán zhōng yǒng chū， zài xī liú zhōng xiàng xià liú， zài xī jiàn zhōng bēn zǒu， zài chí táng zhōng ān dìng， zài hé liú zhōng shùn shì liú， zài xuán wō zhōng huí xuán， bìng xíng chéng zhǎo zé。

Water springs out of a fountain, flows downwards in a brook, runs in a beck, stands in a pond, glides in the stream, is whirled about in a whirlpool and causes fens.

你怎麽这麽下流啊？nǐ zěn mó zhè mó xià liú a？

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 下流.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 下流.

Directly before

的下流1
麽下流1
居下流1
说些下流1
中向下流1

Directly after

下流笑话1
下流啊1
下流的话1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 下流

What does 下流 mean in Chinese?

下流 (xiàliú) means lower course of a river.

How do you pronounce 下流?

下流 is pronounced xiàliú.

Is 下流 an HSK word?

下流 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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