- 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 
- 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 
- 合流【ごうりゅう】 - confluence (of rivers), merge (of traffic), conflux, junction, joining, union (e.g. of forces), linking up, merging, coming together 
- 一流【いちりゅう】 - first-class, first-rate, top-flight, top-ranking, leading, eminent, top, characteristic (of), peculiar (to), unique (to), school (e.g. of flower arrangement), one flag, one banner, one streamer 
- 流行【りゅうこう】 - fashion, trend, vogue, craze, fad, popularity, prevalence (of a disease), epidemic 
- 交流【こうりゅう】 - exchange (e.g. cultural), interchange, interaction, mingling, mixing, coming together, alternating current, AC 
- 流通【りゅうつう】 - circulation (of money, goods, etc.), distribution, circulation (of air, water, etc.), ventilation, flow 
- 上流【じょうりゅう】 - upper stream, upper course, upper reaches, upstream, upper classes 
- 下流【かりゅう】 - downstream, lower reaches of a river, lower classes 
- 流し【ながし】 - sink (e.g. in a kitchen), 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 
- 中流【ちゅうりゅう】 - mid-stream, middle course, middle class 
- 流出【りゅうしゅつ】 - 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) 
- 三流【さんりゅう】 - third-rate, third-class 
- 流行歌【りゅうこうか】 - popular song, hit song 
- 海流【かいりゅう】 - ocean current 
- 二流【にりゅう】 - second-rate, inferior 
- 風流【ふうりゅう】 - elegance, taste, refinement 
- 流氷【りゅうひょう】 - drift ice, ice floe 
- 渓流【けいりゅう】 - mountain stream, mountain torrent