Kanji N3

流: current, a sink, flow

流 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning current, a sink, flow, written with 10 strokes. It is read リュウ, ル (on) and ながれる, ながれ, ながす (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 3. You will see it in 流れ (ながれ, flow) and 流行 (りゅうこう, fashion).

流

Meanings

  • current
  • a sink
  • flow
  • forfeit
Strokes10
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 3
Frequency#280 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • リュウ
  • ル

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • ながれる
  • ながれ
  • ながす
  • -ながす

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

Watch the stroke order

Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.

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Now draw it

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Your turn: draw stroke 1 of 10. Start at the dot.

Common words with 流

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 流れながれ

    flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; current

    JLPT N3
  • 流行りゅうこう

    fashion; trend; vogue; craze; fad; popularity

    JLPT N3
  • 流すながす

    to drain; to pour; to run; to let flow; to flush

    JLPT N3
  • 流れるながれる

    to stream; to flow (liquid, time, etc.)

    JLPT N3
  • 交流こうりゅう

    exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange

    JLPT N2
  • 流通りゅうつう

    circulation (of money, goods, etc.)

    JLPT N1
  • 流しながし

    sink (e.g. in a kitchen)

    JLPT N1
  • 流域りゅういき

    drainage basin; catchment basin; river basin

    JLPT N2

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.