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

11 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
angling, fish, catch, allure, ensnare
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1542 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 釣果 【チョウカ】 catch (fishing), amount of fish caught, caught fish
  • 釣菌 【チョウキン】 extracting bacteria (from a petri dish, etc.)
  • 爆釣 【バクチョウ】 big catch (of fish), big haul

Kun reading compounds

  • 釣る 【つる】 to fish, to angle, to catch, to lure in, to tempt, to attract, to entice, to allure
  • 釣瓶 【つるべ】 well bucket
  • 釣り 【つり】 fishing, angling, change (for a purchase), clickbaiting, trolling, bait, making deliberately inflammatory posts online
  • 釣り合い 【つりあい】 balance, equilibrium
  • 雪釣り 【ゆきつり】 game in which children use a piece of charcoal on a string to create and lift up snowballs
  • 雪吊り 【ゆきづり】 placing ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow, ropes stretched from the top of a tree to the lower branches to prevent their breaking under heavy snow

Readings

Japanese names:
つり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
diao4
Korean:
jo

Spanish

  • pescar con caña
  • colgar
  • cambio (dinero)

Portuguese

  • pesca
  • peixe
  • pegar
  • fascinação
  • laçar

French

  • rendre la monnaie
  • pêche à la ligne
  • attraper
  • attirer
  • capturer
1592 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1225 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4820 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1836 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1843 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1416 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1862 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2020 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1335 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1810 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2108 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1098 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1496 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
279 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40172X Morohashi
1674 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6224 New Nelson (John Haig)
273 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
291 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1495 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2852 2001 Kanji
8a3.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-3 SKIP code
8712.0 Four corner code
1-36-64 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
91e3 Unicode hex code