He sat next to the stream.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
溪流
stream
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
stream
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 溪流 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 溪流 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The murmur of the brook lulls me to sleep.
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.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 溪流.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 溪流.
Directly before
- 坐在溪流1
- 在溪流1
Directly after
- 溪流旁边1
- 溪流潺潺1
- 溪流中向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 溪流
What does 溪流 mean in Chinese?
溪流 (xīliú) means stream.
How do you pronounce 溪流?
溪流 is pronounced xīliú.
Is 溪流 an HSK word?
溪流 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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