引流

yǐnliú
verb #36,860

Meanings

  1. 1 to attract traffic (online marketing)
  2. 2 to draw off (liquid)
  3. 3 (medicine) to perform a drainage procedure

Examples

Tāmen yòng duǎn shìpín gěi diànpù yǐnliú.
They use short videos to drive traffic to their shop.
Yīshēng zài shāngkǒu chù zuò le yǐnliú.
The doctor performed a drainage at the wound site.

Tips

usage
Three domains share the same word: literal hydraulic drainage (oldest use), surgical wound drainage, and online marketing — where is the 'flow' of users/traffic. Marketing sense is now the most frequent in everyday speech.

Stroke Order

yǐn
liú