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
流失
liúshī
to drain away; to be lost
Characters in this word
失 shī
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 大 — big, great, vast, high, deep
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 如果基层医生持续流失，偏远地区的公共卫生服务将更加脆弱。 Rúguǒ jīcéng yīshēng chíxù liúshī, piānyuǎn dìqū de gōnggòng wèishēng fúwù jiāng gèngjiā cuìruò. If primary-level doctors keep leaving, public health services in remote areas will become even more fragile.
- 下大雨时，山坡上的泥土容易流失。 Xià dàyǔ shí, shānpō shàng de nítǔ róngyì liúshī. When it rains heavily, the soil on the hillside is easily washed away.
- 公司工资太低，不少有经验的员工都流失了。 Gōngsī gōngzī tài dī, bù shǎo yǒu jīngyàn de yuángōng dōu liúshī le. The company's wages are too low, and quite a few experienced employees have left.
Related words
- 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
- 流入 liúrù to flow into