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liú

Character Formation
Definition	flow, circulate, drift; class
Formation Method	(会意) Associative Compound. Man (inverted, with hair down) 㐬 dragged by water 氵. (形声) Pictophonetic. 氵 (water) suggests the meaning while 㐬 suggests the sound.

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