流

current, a sink, flow, forfeit

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

リュウル

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

-なが.すなが.すなが.れなが.れる

Nanori (名乗り)

なながれめぐる

Stroke Order

10 / 10

Information

Grade:3

Strokes:10

JLPT:N3

Frequency:280

Vocabulary

リュウ

Word	Reading	Meaning
一流	イチリュウ	first-class; first-rate; top-flight; top-ranking; leading; eminent; top; characteristic (of); peculiar (to); unique (to); school (e.g. of flower arrangement); one flag; one banner; one streamer
下流	カリュウ	downstream; lower reaches of a river; lower classes
海流	カイリュウ	ocean current
還流	カンリュウ	return current; reflux; back flow
源流	ゲンリュウ	source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)

ル

Word	Reading	Meaning
流刑	ルケイ	exile; banishment; deportation
流布	ルフ	circulation; dissemination
流浪	ルロウ	vagrancy; wandering; nomadism
流民	ルミン	refugees
流転	ルテン	continual change; vicissitudes; transmigration; metempsychosis

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
流	りゅう	way; manner; style; fashion; mode; school (e.g. of flower arrangement); class; rate; rank; flow; current; stream
流し	ながし	sink (e.g. in a kitchen); cruising (e.g. taxi); strolling (entertainer, musician, etc.); washing area (in a Japanese-style bath); back-washing service (in a public bath); floating (something on water); setting adrift; washing away
流す	ながす	to drain; to pour; to run; to let flow; to flush; to shed (blood, tears); to spill; to float (e.g. logs down a river); to set adrift; to wash away; to carry away; to sweep away; to broadcast; to play (e.g. music over a loudspeaker); to send (electricity through a wire); to circulate (a rumour, information, etc.); to spread; to distribute; to cruise (of a taxi); to stroll around (in search of customers, an audience, etc.); to go from place to place; to cancel (a plan, meeting, etc.); to call off; to reject (e.g. a bill); to forfeit (a pawn); to do leisurely (e.g. running, swimming); to do with ease; to do effortlessly; to exile; to banish; to hit (the ball) to the opposite field; to do inattentively; to do without concentrating; to put little effort into doing; to cause a miscarriage; to abort
流れ	ながれ	flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; current; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); tide; passing; (changing) trends; tendency; course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; process; group of people who remain together after the end of an event; descent; ancestry; school; forfeiture; foreclosure; cancellation; drifting; wandering; roaming
流れる	ながれる	to stream; to flow (liquid, time, etc.); to run (ink); to be washed away; to be carried; to drift; to float (e.g. clouds); to wander; to stray; to sweep (e.g. rumour, fire); to spread; to circulate; to be heard (e.g. music); to be played; to lapse (e.g. into indolence, despair); to pass; to elapse; to be transmitted; to be called off; to be forfeited; to disappear; to be removed

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

cry, weep, moan

waterfall, rapids, cascade

method, law, rule, principle, model, system

wash, inquire into, probe

seethe, boil, ferment, uproar, breed

settle (debt, etc.), relieve (burden), finish, come to an end, excusable, need not

fluid, liquid, juice, sap, secretion

melt, dissolve, thaw