流 liú
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 㐬 pennant
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
流行
liúxíng
popular; fashionable
Characters in this word
行 xíng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 行 — to go, to walk, to move
- Made of
- 彳 to step with the left foot 亍 to take small steps
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这歌很流行。 Zhè gē hěn liúxíng. This song is very popular.
- 手机很流行。 Shǒujī hěn liúxíng. Mobile phones are very popular.
- 这种鞋流行。 Zhè zhǒng xié liúxíng. This kind of shoe is fashionable.
Related words
- 流 liú to flow
- 流利 liúlì fluent
- 交流 jiāoliú to communicate; to exchange
- 潮流 cháoliú trend
- 流传 liúchuán to spread; to pass down
- 流动 liúdòng to flow; to move around
- 流通 liútōng to circulate
- 一流 yīliú first-class
- 行 xíng OK, all right; to go
- 不行 bùxíng not okay; cannot
- 进行 jìnxíng to be in progress; to carry out
- 举行 jǔxíng to hold an event