尾流
wěi liú
Pinyin
Definition
尾流
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- wake (trailing behind a ship, airplane etc)
- slipstream
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 top quality
- 2 front ranking
- 1 to exchange
- 2 exchange
- 3 communication
- 4 interaction
- 5 to have social contact (with sb)
- 1 tail
- 2 remainder
- 3 remnant
- 4 extremity
- 5 sixth of the 28 constellations
- 6 classifier for fish
- 1 tail
- 2 colloquial pr. [yǐ ba]
- 1 to flow
- 2 to disseminate
- 3 to circulate or spread
- 4 to move or drift
- 5 to degenerate
- 6 to banish or send into exile
- 7 stream of water or sth resembling one
- 8 class, rate or grade
Idioms (20)
人往高处走,水往低处流
- 1 man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)
- 2 one should constantly strive to make progress
付之东流
- 1 to commit to the waters (idiom); to lose sth irrevocably
口碑流传
- 1 widely praised (idiom); with an extensive public reputation
同流合污
- 1 to wallow in the mire with sb (idiom); to follow the bad example of others
吴头楚尾
- 1 lit. head in Wu and tail in Chu (idiom); fig. close together
- 2 head-to-tail
- 3 one thing starts where the other leaves off