内流

內流
nèiliú
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 inland-flowing (of a river or drainage system, not reaching the sea)
  2. 2 endorheic

Examples

Tǎlǐmù Hé shì Zhōngguó zuì cháng de nèiliú hé.
The Tarim is China's longest inland-flowing river.
Nèiliú qūyù de shuǐ zuìzhōng zhēngfā huò zhùrù húpō.
Water in endorheic regions ultimately evaporates or empties into lakes.

Tips

usage
Pairs with 外流 (wàiliú — outward-flowing, exorheic). 内流河 (inland river — flows into a desert or lake), 内流 (terminal lake). Standard physical-geography vocabulary in Chinese textbooks.

Stroke Order

nèi
liú