流

way; manner; style; fashion; mode

school (e.g. of flower arrangement)

Oft. after a number

class; rate; rank

flow; current; stream

Historical term

exile (second most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

Counter

counter for flags, banners, etc.

as one would expect; naturally; indeed

still; all the same; after all

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

Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)

as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); just like (someone)

Usu. as 〜に

still; all the same; after all

As さすがの...も

even ... (e.g. "even a genius")

Transitive verb

to drain; to pour; to run; to let flow; to flush; to shed (blood, tears); to spill

Transitive verb

to float (e.g. logs down a river); to set adrift

Transitive verb

to wash away; to carry away; to sweep away

Transitive verb

to broadcast; to play (e.g. music over a loudspeaker); to send (electricity through a wire)

Transitive verb

to circulate (a rumour, information, etc.); to spread; to distribute

Intransitive verb

to cruise (of a taxi); to stroll around (in search of customers, an audience, etc.); to go from place to place

Transitive verb

to cancel (a plan, meeting, etc.); to call off; to reject (e.g. a bill)

Transitive verb

to forfeit (a pawn)

Intransitive verb

to do leisurely (e.g. running, swimming); to do with ease; to do effortlessly

Transitive verb

to exile; to banish

Transitive verb; Baseball

to hit (the ball) to the opposite field

Suffix; After the -masu stem of a verb

to do inattentively; to do without concentrating; to put little effort into doing

Transitive verb

to cause a miscarriage; to abort

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

Finance

forfeiture; foreclosure

Usu. as お流れ

cancellation

drifting; wandering; roaming

as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); just like (someone)

to flow into; to pour into; to stream into

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

fashion; trend; vogue; craze; fad; popularity

prevalence (of a disease); epidemic

to be popular; to come into fashion

to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to be endemic

to flourish; to thrive

to pour into; to wash down (food)

Computing

to insert (e.g. into a data stream); to integrate

to run off (fluid); to run down; to flow down

circulation (of money, goods, etc.); distribution

circulation (of air, water, etc.); ventilation; flow

to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out; to drift away

to flow out; to stream out; to pour out; to gush forth; to leak; to ooze out; to drift away

sink (e.g. in a kitchen)

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

cruising (e.g. taxi); strolling (entertainer, musician, etc.)

washing area (in a Japanese-style bath)

back-washing service (in a public bath)

floating (something on water); setting adrift; washing away

outflow; effluence; efflux; spillage; spill; discharge; haemorrhage; hemorrhage; bleeding (e.g. of ink into paper)

outflow (of people, capital, etc.); drain (of gold, talent, etc. from a country); leak (e.g. of personal information)

meteor; shooting star; falling star

way (of doing things); method; style; fashion

school (of ikebana, tea ceremony, etc.); style; system

fluent (in a language); flowing

fashion; fad; vogue; craze

prevalence (e.g. of a disease)

shooting star; falling star; meteor

blaze (wide white stripe down the face of a horse)