Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
current, a sink, flow, forfeit
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
280 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 流 【リュウ】 way, manner, style, fashion, mode, school (e.g. of flower arrangement), class, rate, rank, flow, current, stream
  • 旒 【リュウ】 counter for flags, banners, etc.
  • 清流 【セイリュウ】 clear stream
  • 火砕流 【カサイリュウ】 pyroclastic flow
  • 流 【ル】 exile (second most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
  • 流刑 【リュウケイ】 exile, banishment, deportation
  • 配流 【ハイル】 exile, banishment
  • 中流 【チュウル】 banishment (to a somewhat distant province), middle-degree punishment of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryō system

Kun reading compounds

  • 流れる 【ながれる】 to stream, to flow (liquid, time, etc.), to run (ink), to be washed away, to be carried, to drift, to float (e.g. clouds), to wander, to stray, to sweep (e.g. rumour, fire), to spread, to circulate, to be heard (e.g. music), to be played, to lapse (e.g. into indolence, despair), to pass, to elapse, to be transmitted, to be called off, to be forfeited, to disappear, to be removed
  • 流れ 【ながれ】 flow (of a fluid or gas), stream, current, flow (of people, things), passage (of time), tide, passing, (changing) trends, tendency, course (of events), (step-by-step) procedure, process, group of people who remain together after the end of an event, descent, ancestry, school, forfeiture, foreclosure, cancellation, drifting, wandering, roaming
  • 流れ込む 【ながれこむ】 to flow into, to pour into, to stream into
  • 流す 【ながす】 to drain, to pour, to run, to let flow, to flush, to shed (blood, tears), to spill, to float (e.g. logs down a river), to set adrift, to wash away, to carry away, to sweep away, to broadcast, to play (e.g. music over a loudspeaker), to send (electricity through a wire), to circulate (a rumour, information, etc.), to spread, to distribute, to cruise (of a taxi), to stroll around (in search of customers, an audience, etc.), to go from place to place, to cancel (a plan, meeting, etc.), to call off, to reject (e.g. a bill), to forfeit (a pawn), to do leisurely (e.g. running, swimming), to do with ease, to do effortlessly, to exile, to banish, to hit (the ball) to the opposite field, to do inattentively, to do without concentrating, to put little effort into doing

Readings

Japanese names:
な、 ながれ、 めぐる
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
liu2
Korean:
ryu

Spanish

  • corriente
  • derramar
  • verter

Portuguese

  • corrente
  • afundar
  • fluxo
  • derrocada

French

  • courant
  • style
  • mode
  • évier
  • flux
  • confisquer (un article en gage)
334 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
432 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
409 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
296 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2576 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
329 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
682 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1332 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
247 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
247 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
279 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1200 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
529 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
325 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
400 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
771 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17572P Morohashi
441 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3160 New Nelson (John Haig)
764 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
826 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
235 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
367 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
357 2001 Kanji
3a7.10 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
3011.3 Four corner code
3411.3 Four corner code
1-46-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6d41 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
wandering, waves, billows, reckless, unrestrained
On:
ロウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1508 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 浪 【ロウ】 person who has spent X years after graduating high school attempting to get admitted to (a specific) university
  • 浪人 【ロウニン】 ronin, masterless samurai, high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination, person out of work, jobless person, wanderer, drifter
  • 放浪 【ホウロウ】 wandering, roaming, drifting
  • 1浪 【イチロウ】 failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later

Readings

Japanese names:
なに、 なみ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lang4
Korean:
rang

Spanish

  • ola
  • onda
  • ondulación
  • fluctuación
  • divagación
  • vagar
  • inutilidad

Portuguese

  • vagabundando
  • ondas
  • vagas

French

  • ondes
  • vagues
  • flots
1937 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1445 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2570 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1197 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1475 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1339 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1753 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1877 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1398 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1202 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
527 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
323 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
398 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1482 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
17482 Morohashi
439 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3155 New Nelson (John Haig)
1470 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1580 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1362 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
365 2001 Kanji
3a7.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-7 SKIP code
3313.2 Four corner code
1-47-18 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6d6a Unicode hex code