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
流血
liúxuè
to shed blood; bloodshed
Characters in this word
血 xuè
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 血 — blood
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 谈判的意义在于让冲突不再以流血收场。 Tánpàn de yìyì zàiyú ràng chōngtū bú zài yǐ liúxuè shōuchǎng. The purpose of negotiation is to ensure that conflict no longer ends in bloodshed.
- 他摔倒后膝盖流血了，妈妈赶紧给他贴上创可贴。 Tā shuāidǎo hòu xīgài liúxuè le, māma gǎnjǐn gěi tā tiē shàng chuāngkětiē. After he fell his knee started bleeding, and his mother quickly put a plaster on it.
- 受伤流血时，先用干净的布压住伤口。 Shòushāng liúxuè shí, xiān yòng gānjìng de bù yā zhù shāngkǒu. When an injury is bleeding, first press the wound with a clean cloth.
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