HSK 5 · Science

浏览 liúlǎn “to skim over” in Chinese

Traditional 瀏覽

What 浏览 means

  1. to skim over
  2. to browse

How to say 浏览

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale浏liú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale览lǎn3rd tone, dipping

浏览 in a sentence

  1. 我只是浏览一下。

    Wǒ zhǐshì liúlǎn yíxià.

    I’m just browsing.

    Sentence #13519171 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 他快速浏览摘要，寻找要找的论文。

    Tā kuàisù liúlǎn zhāiyào, xúnzhǎo yào zhǎo de lùnwén.

    He quickly skimmed the abstracts to find the paper he was looking for.

    Sentence #13504848 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 浏览器跑得超级慢。

    Liúlǎnqì pǎo de chāojí màn.

    The browser is running super slowly.

    Sentence #3763518 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 浏览 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 浏 (liú) with each of its parts in a different colour
浏liúclear
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 刘to kill · liúSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 刘 (liú) hints at the sound. Compare it with liú.

The character 览 (lǎn) drawn as one shape
览lǎnto look at

览 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 浏览

浏 9 strokes · 览 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

浏览 (liúlǎn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 浏览 (liúlǎn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 浏览

Words with 览

游览yóulǎn · to go sightseeing展览zhǎnlǎn · to put on display博览会bólǎnhuì · exhibition

More words: Science & Technology

电池diànchí · battery复制fùzhì · to duplicate机器jīqì · machine键盘jiànpán · keyboard录音lùyīn · to record (sound)麦克风màikèfēng · microphone (loanword)软件ruǎnjiàn · (computer) software删除shānchú · to delete

FAQs

浏览 (liúlǎn) means “to skim over” or “to browse”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it liúlǎn: liú with a 2nd tone, then lǎn with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 浏览 is written 瀏覽. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type liulan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 浏览 from the suggestions. Typing liulan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
浏览 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.