流

Meaning

流 centers on continuous movement of something along a path: a current of water, a flow of things or ideas, and by extension the idea of something being carried away or lost, as in a forfeit.

• 流れながれ
  N3

  flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; current

• 流石さすが
  N2

  as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); just like (someone)

• 交流こうりゅう
  N2

  exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; mingling; mixing; coming together

• 流しながし
  N2

  sink (e.g. in a kitchen)

• 流りゅう
  N1

  way; manner; style; fashion; mode

• 流すながす
  N3

  to drain; to pour; to run; to let flow; to flush; to shed (blood, tears); to spill

• 流行りゅうこう
  N3

  fashion; trend; vogue; craze; fad; popularity

• 流れるながれる
  N4

  to stream; to flow (liquid, time, etc.); to run (ink)

• 流出りゅうしゅつ

  outflow; effluence; efflux; spillage; spill; discharge; haemorrhage; hemorrhage; bleeding (e.g. of ink into paper)

• 流行るはやる
  N3

  to be popular; to come into fashion

• 流通りゅうつう
  N1

  circulation (of money, goods, etc.); distribution

• 主流しゅりゅう

  (the) mainstream

• 合流ごうりゅう
  N2

  confluence (of rivers); flowing together; joining

• 一流いちりゅう
  N3

  first-class; first-rate; top-flight; top-ranking; leading; eminent; top

• 電流でんりゅう
  N2

  electric current

• 上流じょうりゅう
  N1

  upper stream; upper course; upper reaches

• 物流ぶつりゅう

  physical distribution; distribution of goods; logistics

• 流入りゅうにゅう

  inflow; influx

• 流用りゅうよう

  diversion (e.g. of funds); appropriation; misappropriation

• 流動りゅうどう

  flow

• 下流かりゅう
  N1

  downstream; lower reaches of a river

• 漂流ひょうりゅう

  drifting; drift; being adrift

• 流血りゅうけつ

  bloodshed

• 中流ちゅうりゅう
  N1

  mid-stream; middle course

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