| 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) |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
280 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
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
- Korean:
- ryu
Spanish
- corriente
- derramar
- verter
Portuguese
- corrente
- afundar
- fluxo
- derrocada
French
- courant
- style
- mode
- évier
- flux
- confisquer (un article en gage)
| 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 |
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
2031 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 蛍光灯 【ケイコウトウ】 fluorescent lamp, fluorescent light, person who is slow to react, someone slow on the uptake
- 蛍光 【ケイコウ】 fluorescence
- 流蛍 【リュウケイ】 flying firefly
Kun reading compounds
- 蛍 【ほたる】 firefly (Luciola cruciata), lightning bug, glowworm
- 蛍藺 【ほたるい】 Scirpus hotarui (species of bulrush)
- 海蛍 【うみほたる】 sea firefly (Vargula hilgendorfii), seed shrimp
Readings
- Korean:
- hyeong
Spanish
- luciérnaga
Portuguese
- pirilampo
- vaga-lume
French
- ver luisant
- luciole
| 1200 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 1925 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1717 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1878 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 2043 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1676 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1607 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3204 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1658 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2248 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 524 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 32983 | Morohashi |
| 2591 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 5302 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 518 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 557 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 1482 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 3n8.2 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-5-6 | SKIP code |
| 2-3-8 | SKIP code |
| 9013.6 | Four corner code |
| 3213.6 | Four corner code |
| 1-23-54 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 86cd | Unicode hex code |