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E.G Current Flow Water Stream School Taxi Infant

Kanji
Onyomi リュウ、ル
Kunyomi なが.れる、なが.れ、なが.す、-なが.す
Nanori な, ながれ, めぐる
English current, a sink, flow, forfeit
Examples 流行(はやり): (1) fashion; fad; vogue; craze (2) prevalence (e.g. of a disease)
交流(こうりゅう): (1) (cultural) exchange; interchange; interaction; (inter-) mingling; (social, etc.) networking; intercourse (2) alternating current; AC
流れ(ながれ): stream; current; flow
流通(りゅうつう): (1) circulation of money or goods; flow of water or air; distribution (2) negotiable (e.g. shares)
一流(いちりゅう): (1) first-class; top grade; foremost; top-notch; leading (2) characteristic; peculiar; unique (3) school (e.g. of a performance art) (4) one flag; one banner; one streamer
流す(ながす): (1) to drain; to pour; to spill; to shed (blood, tears) (2) to wash away (3) to distribute (e.g. electricity over wires, music over a PA system, etc.); to circulate; to broadcast; to beam (4) to cruise (e.g. taxi) (5) to float; to set adrift (6) to call off (a meeting, etc.)
流し(ながし): (1) sink (2) cruising (e.g. taxi)
電流(でんりゅう): electric current
流域(りゅういき): (river) basin
海流(かいりゅう): ocean current
流れる(ながれる): to stream; to flow (liquid, time, etc.); to run (ink); to be washed away
流(りゅう): style of; method of; manner of; school (of thought)
流行る(はやる): (1) to be popular; to come into fashion (2) to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to be endemic (3) to flourish; to thrive
流石(さすが): (1) as one would expect (2) still; all the same (3) even... (e.g. "even a genius...")
合流(ごうりゅう): (1) confluence (of rivers); merge (of traffic); conflux; junction; joining (2) union (e.g. of forces); linking up; merging; coming together
気流(きりゅう): atmospheric current; air current; airflow
直流(ちょくりゅう): direct current; DC
JLPT Level 3
Jouyou Grade 3
Frequency 280
Components 水: water
㐬: a cup with pendants; a pennant; wild; barren; uncultivated
Number of Strokes 10
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 85
Radical Strokes 4
Radical Reading みず・したみず・さんずい
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword current
Koohii Story 1 INFANT Moses placed in the WATER and sent down the current of the STREAM.
Koohii Story 2 A water-breathing infant (genetically modified?) is caught in a flood, and drifts with the current, apparently enjoying himself in the process.
RTK Index 764

Tags: jlpt.n3, grade3, kanjifreq251-500

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