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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
- —屈流性rheotropism
- —示現流Jigen-ryū; school of swordsmanship founded in the Satsuma domain in the early Edo period
- —剛柔流Goju-ryu (karate school)
- —揚心流Yoshin-ryu (school of martial arts)
- —一次電流primary current
- —下流社会lower classes
- —渓流釣りmountain stream fishing
- —原油流出(crude) oil spill
- —交流人事personnel shuffle
- —国際交流international exchange
- —三相交流three-phase alternating current
- —上昇気流ascending air current; updraft; upward trend; rise in popularity, influence, etc.
- —上層気流upper air currents
- —上流社会upper classes
- —人工流産abortion
- —他流試合contest between different schools (of fencing, etc.)
- —中流社会middle class
- —半流動体semiliquid
- —流言飛語false rumour (rumor); groundless rumour; canard
- —流体力学fluid mechanics; fluid dynamics; hydrodynamics