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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
- —宗徧流Sōhen school of tea ceremony
- —不昧流Fumai school of tea ceremony
- —織部流Oribe school of tea ceremony
- —石州流Sekishū school of tea ceremony; Sekishū school of ikebana
- —宗和流Sōwa school of tea ceremony
- —利休流Rikyū school of tea ceremony (i.e. the Senke school)
- —宗旦流Sōtan school of tea ceremony
- —三斎流Sansai school of tea ceremony
- —松尾流Matsuo school of tea ceremony
- —流刑者person in exile; deportee; exile
- —一流半not quite first-class; between first and second class; semi-first-class
- —合流点confluence (of rivers); junction (of rivers, roads, etc.); meeting point
- —主流煙mainstream smoke (from a cigarette, cigar, etc.)
- —空気流air flow
- —海流図current chart
- —導流帯road area marked with diagonal white lines to guide traffic
- —流雪溝snow drainage gutter
- —大橋流Ōhashi style; customary order of setting up the board in which the bishop and rook are placed before pawns
- —伊藤流Itō style; customary order of setting up the board in which pawns are placed before the rook and bishop
- —一刀流Ittō-ryū; school of swordsmanship founded during the early Edo period, from which many later schools branched