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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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リュウル
Kun readings
ながれるながれながす-ながす
Words with 流
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —不正流用misappropriation (of funds, etc.)
- —無手勝流winning without fighting; method used to win without fighting; one's own way of doing things (i.e. as different from that of one's instructor); Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)
- —流連荒亡spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures
- —霊的交流spiritual sympathy; spiritual communion
- —心の交流spiritual exchange; reciprocal flow of feeling
- —松涛館流Shotokan (style of karate)
- —集客交流hospitality (industry)
- —流行歌手popular singer; singer of pop songs
- —没風流漢prosaic person; person of an unromantic turn of mind; philistine
- —流血沙汰bloodshed; bloody event; bloody violence
- —血流障害impeded blood flow
- —難民流出outflow of refugees
- —青蓮院流Shorenin school of calligraphy; Sonen school; Oie school
- —一流大学top university; leading university; first-rate university
- —上流階級upper class; upper echelons of society; the rich and powerful; the elite
- —宝蔵院流Hozoin-ryu (school of sojutsu)
- —交番電流alternating current; AC
- —二次電流secondary current
- —物流販売sale of goods (as opposed to services)
- —漏れ電流leakage current