流浪

流浪 liúlàng

Wander (roam about)

流浪 in a sentence HSK 6 liulang

What 流浪 means

  1. Wander (roam about)

These meanings come from the same dictionary that powers the Chinese to Pinyin translator and the Chinese to English translator, so a whole sentence containing 流浪 will read it the same way this page does.

Recognise a piece of 流浪 but not the character it belongs to? Pick the parts in the component character finder and it will name the character for you — free for every character, with nothing to sign in to.

Character by character

流浪 is written with 2 characters. Chinese words are usually easier to remember once you can see what each part contributes.

流
liú
Flow (drift - move - flu - exile)
浪
làng
Wave (wasteful - squander)

How to write 流浪

Stroke order is not decoration — it is what makes handwriting legible and what dictionary lookup by stroke count depends on.

Practise 流浪 on printable 田字格 sheets, trace it in the writing practice tool, or watch any other character in the Stroke Order Animator.

流浪 in a sentence

这只小猫在街上流浪了很久。
Zhè zhī xiǎo māo zài jiē shang liúlàng le hěn jiǔ.
This kitten wandered the streets for a long time.
他年轻时流浪过好几个城市。
Tā niánqīng shí liúlàng guo hǎojǐ ge chéngshì.
When young he drifted through several cities.

Every sentence on this site that uses 流浪 is collected on the 流浪 sentence page. Want pinyin above a sentence of your own? Paste it into the Pinyin Annotator.

Questions about 流浪

What does 流浪 mean in English?

流浪 is pronounced liúlàng and means Wander (roam about).

How do you pronounce 流浪?

流浪 is liúlàng in pinyin — written liulang without tone marks. Press the audio button on this page to hear it spoken by a native voice.

What are the characters in 流浪?

流浪 is written with 2 characters: 流 (liú) Flow (drift - move - flu - exile), 浪 (làng) Wave (wasteful - squander). Knowing the parts is usually how the whole word becomes memorable.

Is 流浪 an HSK word?

Yes — 流浪 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list. You can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

Studied around the same time

Keep going

Translate a whole sentence containing 流浪 with the Chinese to Pinyin translator, study it alongside the rest of HSK 6, drill it with HSK flashcards, or save it above and review it on your review deck.

Browse the dictionary

Every word on this site links to its entry — tap any word in a graded reader, a translation result or an HSK list to land on a page like this one.

Dictionary index