川 chuān
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 川 — stream, river
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
川流不息
chuānliúbùxī
to flow in an endless stream
Characters in this word
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
不 bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
息 xī
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 心 — heart
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 桥上的车辆川流不息，一直到深夜才少了。 Qiáo shang de chēliàng chuānliúbùxī, yìzhí dào shēnyè cái shǎo le. Vehicles on the bridge flowed in an endless stream and thinned out only late at night.
- 火车站前的人群川流不息，大家都匆匆忙忙。 Huǒchēzhàn qián de rénqún chuānliúbùxī, dàjiā dōu cōngcōngmángmáng. The crowd in front of the railway station flowed ceaselessly, and everyone was in a hurry.
- 周末的商场里，来买东西的顾客川流不息。 Zhōumò de shāngchǎng lǐ, lái mǎi dōngxi de gùkè chuānliúbùxī. In the shopping mall at the weekend, customers came in an endless stream.
Related words
- 山川 shānchuān mountains and rivers
- 流 liú to flow
- 流利 liúlì fluent
- 流行 liúxíng popular; fashionable
- 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
- 流程 liúchéng process, flow
- 流量 liúliàng traffic, internet data, flow rate