Chinese symbol for “tributary”
流派
liú pài
tributary (stream); (fig.) school (of thought); genre; style
The closest CC-CEDICT match for tributary is 流派 (liú pài), defined as: tributary (stream); (fig.) school (of thought); genre; style.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “tributary”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 支流 | zhī liú | tributary (river) |
| 派 | pài | (literary) tributary; branch of a river; clique; school; group; faction |
| 河涌 | hé chōng | tributary; branch of a river |
| 河汊 | hé chà | tributary; branch of a river |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 流派.
| 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 |
| 派出 | pài chū | to send; to dispatch |
| 派遣 | pài qiǎn | to send (on a mission); to dispatch |
See also: Japanese symbol for “tributary”.
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.