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流 りゅう

  1. fashion; manner; mode; style; way
  2. school (e.g. of flower arrangement)
  3. class; rank; rate
  4. current; flow; stream

流 る

  1. exile (second most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

流す ながす N3

  1. to drain; to flush; to let flow; to pour; to run; to shed (blood, tears); to spill
  2. to float (e.g. logs down a river); to set adrift
  3. to carry away; to sweep away; to wash away
  4. to broadcast; to play (e.g. music over a loudspeaker); to send (electricity through a wire)
  5. to circulate (a rumour, information, etc.); to distribute; to spread
  6. to cruise (of a taxi); to go from place to place; to stroll around (in search of customers, an audience, etc.)
  7. to call off; to cancel (a plan, meeting, etc.); to reject (e.g. a bill)
  8. to forfeit (a pawn)
  9. to do effortlessly; to do leisurely (e.g. running, swimming); to do with ease
  10. to banish; to exile
  11. to hit (the ball) to the opposite field
  12. to do inattentively; to do without concentrating; to put little effort into doing
  13. to abort; to cause a miscarriage

流れ ながれ N3

  1. current; flow (of a fluid or gas); stream
  2. (changing) trends; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); passing; tendency; tide
  3. (step-by-step) procedure; course (of events); process
  4. group of people who remain together after the end of an event
  5. ancestry; descent; school
  6. foreclosure; forfeiture
  7. cancellation
  8. drifting; roaming; wandering

流れる ながれる N3

  1. to flow (liquid, time, etc.); to run (ink); to stream
  2. to be carried; to be washed away
  3. to drift; to float (e.g. clouds); to stray; to wander
  4. to circulate; to spread; to sweep (e.g. rumour, fire)
  5. to be heard (e.g. music); to be played
  6. to lapse (e.g. into indolence, despair)
  7. to be transmitted; to elapse; to pass
  8. to be called off; to be forfeited
  9. to be removed; to disappear

流行 りゅうこう N3

  1. craze; fad; fashion; popularity; trend; vogue
  2. epidemic; prevalence (of a disease)

流行る はやる N3

  1. to be popular; to come into fashion
  2. to be endemic; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease)
  3. to flourish; to thrive

流域 りゅういき N2

  1. catchment basin; drainage basin; river basin; valley; watershed

流石 さすが N2

  1. as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); just like (someone)
  2. after all; all the same; still
  3. even ... (e.g. "even a genius")

流し ながし N1

  1. sink (e.g. in a kitchen)
  2. cruising (e.g. taxi); strolling (entertainer, musician, etc.)
  3. washing area (in a Japanese-style bath)
  4. back-washing service (in a public bath)
  5. floating (something on water); setting adrift; washing away
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