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流 kanji
current, a sink, flow, forfeit
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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On readings
リュウル
Kun readings
ながれるながれながす-ながす
Words with 流
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —草月流Sogetsu school of flower arrangement
- —漂流者person adrift on the sea; castaway (on an island)
- —流行性epidemic
- —根岸流conservative calligraphy style used to write rankings
- —交流会gathering; mixer; meetup; assembly; social; exchange meeting
- —副流煙secondhand smoke; sidestream smoke
- —小堀流kobori; swimming while wearing armor
- —新陰流Shinkage-Ryu (style of Japanese fencing)
- —御家流Oie school of calligraphy (based on the gyōsho style; popular in the Edo period); Sonen school; Shorenin school
- —没風流unrefined; tasteless; inelegant; prosaic; unpoetic; unromantic; boorish
- —大流行big craze; boom; popular trend; huge popularity; widespread contagion; large outbreak
- —流涙症epiphora (excessive watering of the eye)
- —血流量(volume of) blood flow
- —新当流Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)
- —卜伝流Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)
- —岩流圏asthenosphere
- —少林流(Shorin-ryu) Okinawa school of karate
- —降流魚catadromous fish (fish that migrates downstream, e.g. eel)
- —昇流魚anadromous fish (fish that migrates upstream, e.g. salmon)
- —整流板rectifier