Chinese symbol for “fluent”
流利
liú lì
fluent
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fluent is 流利 (liú lì), defined as: fluent.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “fluent”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 流畅 (流暢) | liú chàng | flowing (of speech, writing); fluent |
| 顺畅 (順暢) | shùn chàng | smooth and unhindered; fluent |
| 畅 (暢) | chàng | free; unimpeded |
| 伶牙俐齿 (伶牙俐齒) | líng yá lì chǐ | clever and eloquent (idiom); fluent; having the gift of the gab |
| 通畅 (通暢) | tōng chàng | unobstructed; clear; (of writing or thinking) coherent; fluent |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 流利.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 交流 | jiāo liú | to exchange; exchange |
| 流行 | liú xíng | (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable |
| 主流 | zhǔ liú | main stream (of a river); fig. the essential point |
| 流动 (流動) | liú dòng | to flow; to circulate; to move about; mobile; (of assets) liquid |
| 流量 | liú liàng | flow rate; throughput of passengers; volume of traffic; (hydrology) discharge |
| 流通 | liú tōng | to circulate; to distribute; circulation; distribution |
| 利用 | lì yòng | to exploit; to make use of |
| 权利 (權利) | quán lì | right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fluent”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.