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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
- —高圧電流high-voltage current; high-tension current
- —女流作家woman writer; lady writer; authoress
- —入力電流input; incoming current
- —流通機構distribution system
- —流通経路distribution channel; channel of distribution
- —永久電流permanent current
- —下降気流downward air current
- —火山泥流volcanic mudflow
- —軍事交流military exchange
- —資本流出capital outflow
- —漂流難民boat people
- —風流三昧taking delight in elegant pursuits; being absorbed in such elegant cultural pursuits as poetry, painting and calligraphy
- —枕流漱石sore loser who stubbornly refuses to admit being wrong
- —落花流水mutual love; the love one shows to another person being returned
- —流汗淋漓profuse perspiration; dripping with sweat
- —漱石枕流sore loser who stubbornly refuses to admit being wrong
- —高山流水high mountains and running water; the beauty of nature; beautifully (skillfully) played music
- —天真流露manifestation (revelation) of one's natural sincerity (naivete)
- —風流韻事elegant appreciation of nature through artistic pursuits such as poetry, painting and calligraphy
- —不易流行the principle of fluidity and immutability in haiku; haiku is both fluid and transitory, and eternal and immutable; an interchange between the transient and the immutable is central to the soul of haiku