| Chinese Text Project |
| 流 U+6D41 |  Seal script |  Jinwen | 㳅 Semantic variant | 流 Alternate form |
| Radical: | 水+ 6 strokes = 9 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.203#11 Kangxi: p.623#04 Cihai: p.791r1c02 GSR: 1104.a Hanyu: v3,p1631#12 |
| Composition: | Left: 氵, right: 㐬. Compositionally related: 流 . Component of: 𭱛 𭒐 𠺩 𡏬 𣹭 𬈰 𮋠 瑬 𥧕 蓅 𥰤 鎏 𪃂 |
| Mandarin: | liú ㄌㄧㄡˊ |
| Cantonese: | lau4 |
| Tang reconstruction: | *liou |
| Guangyun: | 《廣韻·下平聲·尤·劉》流：演也，求也，覃也，放也。《說文》曰：水行也。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·水部·六》流：〔古文〕㳅《唐韻》《集韻》《韻會》《正韻》𠀤力求切，音留。《說文》水行也。《爾雅·釋言》流，覃也。《疏》謂水之流，必相延及。《詩·大雅》如川之流。又《爾雅·釋詁》流，擇也，求也。《詩·周南》左右流之。又下也。《詩·豳風》七月流火。又流漫無節制也。《禮·樂記》樂勝則流。又《書·禹貢》二百里流。《禮·王制》千里之外曰采，曰流。又放也。《書·舜典》流宥五𠛬。又視不端諦曰流。《左傳·成六年》鄭伯視流而行速。又走也。《戰國策》楚襄王流淹于城陽。《註》謂走而自匿。又《周禮·冬官·玉人註》鼻勺曰流，凡流皆爲龍口。又《前漢·食貨志》朱提銀重八兩爲一流。又《前漢·藝文志》儒家流，道家流，隂陽家流，法家流，墨家流，縱橫家流，雜家流，農家流，小說家流，各有所從出，分九家。又流布也。《易·謙卦》地道變盈而流謙。又流轉也。《禮·仲尼燕居》周流無不徧。又《張協·七命》傾罍一朝，流湎千日。《註》齊顏色，均衆寡謂之流。又長流，官名。《顏之推·家訓》名治獄參軍爲長流。又黃流，酒名。《詩·大雅》黃流在中。又雙流，縣名。《廣輿記》屬成都府。又《韻補》叶𣼊如切，音閭。《陸雲詩》樂奏聲哀，言發涕流。唯願君子，德與福俱。又叶力救切，音溜。《博𤣥詩》悠悠建平，皇澤未流。朝選于衆，乃子之授。 |
| Fanqie: | 力求 (《廣韻·下平聲·尤·劉》) |
| Unihan definition: | flow, circulate, drift; class |
Example usage
| 《論語·陽貨》: | 子曰：「有惡：惡稱人之惡者，惡居下流而訕上者，惡勇而無禮者，惡果敢而窒者。」 |
| The Master said, "He has his hatreds. He hates those who proclaim the evil of others. He hates the man who, being in a low station, slanders his superiors. He hates those who have valor merely, and are unobservant of propriety. He hates those who are forward and determined, and, at the same time, of contracted understanding." | |
| 《孟子·盡心下》: | 以至仁伐至不仁，而何其血之流杵也？ |
| When the prince the most benevolent was engaged against him who was the most the opposite, how could the blood of the people have flowed till it floated the pestles of the mortars? | |
| 《禮記·曲禮上》: | 毋摶飯，毋放飯，毋流歠，毋吒食，毋嚙骨，毋反魚肉，毋投與狗骨。 |
| Do not roll the rice into a ball; do not bolt down the various dishes; do not swill down (the soup). Do not make a noise in eating; do not crunch the bones with the teeth; do not put back fish you have been eating; do not throw the bones to the dogs. | |
| 《揚子法言》: | 雷震乎天，風薄乎山，雲徂乎方，雨流乎淵，其事矣乎？ |
| 'Thunder shaking in the sky, Wind pressing near the mountains, Clouds blowing to the four corners of the Earth, Rain flowing into the hollows — Are these not Tian' s affairs? | |
| 《莊子·逍遙遊》: | 之人也，物莫之傷，大浸稽天而不溺，大旱、金石流、土山焦而不熱。 |
| Nothing could hurt that man; the greatest floods, reaching to the sky, could not drown him, nor would he feel the fervour of the greatest heats melting metals and stones till they flowed, and scorching all the ground and hills. | |
| 《道德經》: | 大國者下流，天下之交，天下之牝。 |
| What makes a great state is its being (like) a low-lying, down- flowing (stream); - it becomes the centre to which tend (all the small states) under heaven. (To illustrate from) the case of all females: | |
| 《商君書·算地》: | 故為國任地者，山陵居什一，藪澤居什一，谿谷流水居什一，都邑蹊道居什四。 |
| In administering a state therefore, and in disposing of its territory, to populate the mountains and forests with a tenth of the people, the marshes and moors with a tenth, the valleys, dales and streams with a tenth, cities, towns and highways with four tenths | |
| 《孫子兵法·虛實》: | 水因地而制流，兵因敵而制勝。 |
| Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. | |
| 《史記·五帝本紀》: | 北至于幽陵，南至于交阯，西至于流沙，東至于蟠木。 |
| Northward his rule extended to 'Dark mound,' southward to Annam, westward to the moving sands, and eastward to 'Coiling tree'. | |
| 《荀子·大略》: | 多言無法，而流湎然，雖辯，小人也。 |
| 《說苑·君道》: | 不固溺於流俗，不拘繫於左右。 |
| 《春秋繁露·王道》: | 地震，梁山崩，壅河，三日不流。 |
| 《韓詩外傳·卷一》: | 婦人對曰：「阿谷之隧，隱曲之氾，其水載清載濁，流而趨海，欲飲則飲，何問婦人乎？」 |
| 《大戴禮記》: | 從物而流，不知所歸，五鑿為政，心從而壞。 |
| 《白虎通德論·五行》: | 法水流去金也。 |
| 《新書·脩政語上》: | 是故堯教化及雕題蜀越，撫交趾，身涉流沙，地封獨山，西見王母，訓及大夏渠叟，北中幽都，及狗國與人身而鳥面，及焦僥。 |
| 《新序·善謀下》: | 歌數闋，戚夫人唏噓流涕，上起去罷酒，竟不易太子者，留侯召四人之謀也 |
| 《中論·治學》: | 如火得風而炎熾，如水赴下而流速。 |
| 《孔子家語·儒行解》: | 過言不再，流言不極。 |
| 《潛夫論·遏利》: | 王又不悟，故遂流死于彘。 |
| 《論衡·幸偶》: | 孔子、舜之次也，生無尺土，周流應聘，削迹絕糧。 |
| 《太玄經·達》: | 次三，蒼木維流，厥美可以達于瓜苞。 |
| 《風俗通義》: | 言通於流俗之過謬，而事該之於義理也。 |
| 《孔叢子·儒服》: | 三宿，臨別，文節流涕交頤，子高徒抗手而已。 |
| 《申鑒·政體》: | 君好讓，臣好逸，士好遊，民好流，此弱國之風也。 |
| 《忠經·政理章》: | 舜流四凶，足清萬國。 |
| 《新語·道基》: | 禹乃決江䟽河，通之四瀆，致之於海，大小相引，高下相受，百川順流，各歸其所，然後人民得去高險，處平土。 |
| 《獨斷·卷上》: | 三代學校之別名：夏曰校，殷曰序，周曰庠，天子曰辟雍，謂流水四面如璧，以節觀者，諸侯曰頖宮，頖、言半也，義亦如上。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·獨斷》: | 三代學校之別名：夏曰校，殷曰序，周曰庠，天子曰辟雍，謂流水四面如璧，以節觀者，諸侯曰頖宮，頖、言半也，義亦如上。 |
| 《墨子·經說下》: | 凡重，上弗挈，下弗收，旁弗劫，則下直杝，或害之也流。 |
| 《列子·黃帝》: | 禦寇伏地，汗流至踵。 |
| 《鶡冠子·天則》: | 聖王者，有聽微決疑之道，能屏讒，權實，逆淫辭，絕流語，去無用，杜絕朋黨之門，嫉妒之人，不得著明，非君子術數之士莫得當前。 |
| 《文子·道原》: | 夫道者，高不可極，深不可測，苞裹天地，稟受無形，原流泏泏，沖而不盈，濁以靜之徐清，施之無窮，無所朝夕，表之不盈一握，約而能張，幽而能明，柔而能剛，含陰吐陽，而章三光 |
| 《文始真經·一宇》: | 天物怒流，人事錯錯然。 |
| 《列仙傳·關令尹》: | 後與老子俱游流沙，化胡，服苣勝實，莫知其所終。 |
| 《老子河上公章句》: | 忽兮若海，我獨忽忽，如江海之流，莫知其所窮極也。 |
| 《韓非子·初見秦》: | 昔者紂為天子，將率天下甲兵百萬，左飲於淇溪，右飲於洹谿，淇水竭而洹水不流，以與周武王為難。 |
| 《慎子·逸文》: | 河之下龍門，其流駛如竹箭，駟馬追弗能及。 |
| 《諫逐客書》: | 河海不擇細流，故能就其深。 |
| 《管子·輕重丁》: | 管子對曰：「決瓁洛之水，通之杭莊之間，則屠酤之汁肥流水，則蟁虻、巨雄、蓑燕、小鳥，皆歸之，宜昏飲，此水上之樂也，賈人蓄物而賣為讎，買為取。」 |
| 《吳子·料敵》: | 二曰上愛其下，惠施流布。 |
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