りゅう
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. way; manner; style; fashion; mode
Suffix
2. school (e.g. of flower arrangement)
3. class; rate; rank
oft. after a number
4. flow; current; stream
Pitch accent
りゅ
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Used in vocabulary (168 in total)
woman (writer, artist, aviator, etc.)
population flow; movement of people; flow of people; community mobility
fluent (in a language); flowing
atmospheric current; air current; airflow
fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic
Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)
roving robber; marauder
confluence (of rivers); flowing together; joining; joining (of people, groups, parties, etc.); union; linking up
running water; flowing water; stream
main course (of a river); mainstream; main current (e.g. of thought)
cancelling a meeting; adjournment of a meeting (due to lack of attendance)
streamline
sales channels; (product) distribution channels
first-class; first-rate; characteristic (of); peculiar (to); school (e.g. of flower arrangement); one flag
backward flow; backflow; countercurrent; reflux; regurgitation
school (of painting, ikebana, etc.)
wandering (e.g. bird, exile, lifestyle); wandering alone in a strange country
influenza; flu
streamlet; brooklet; rivulet
stray bullet
water current
downstream; lower reaches of a river; lower classes
meteor swarm; meteor shower
self-taught method; one's own way; one's own style
groundless rumor (rumour)
liquid sound
swift current; rapids
avalanche of earth and rocks; debris flow; mudslide; landslide
(air) turbulence
Jigen-ryū; school of swordsmanship founded in the Satsuma domain in the early Edo period
another style; another school (of thought, karate, etc.)
Shinkage-Ryu (style of Japanese fencing)
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
meteor; shooting star; falling star
circulation (of money, goods, etc.); distribution; circulation (of air, water, etc.); ventilation; flow
outflow; effluence; efflux; outflow (of people, capital, etc.); drain (of gold, talent, etc. from a country); leak (e.g. of personal information)
upper stream; upper course; upstream; upper classes
way (of doing things); method; style; school (of ikebana, tea ceremony, etc.); style; system
(the) mainstream; main course (of a river); main stream
third-rate; third-class
liking both alcohol and sweets; person who likes both liquor and sweets; bisexuality; player who can play as both pitcher and fielder; dual sword wielding; two-sword fencing
diversion (e.g. of funds); appropriation; misappropriation; making use of (for another purpose); reuse; repurpose
raging stream; rapids
elegance; taste; refinement
(an) exile; vagrant; wanderer; nomad
second-rate; inferior
Ittō-ryū; school of swordsmanship founded during the early Edo period, from which many later schools branched
mid-stream; middle course; middle class
physical distribution; distribution of goods; logistics
continual change; vicissitudes; transmigration; metempsychosis
streamlined shape; aerodynamic shape
source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
tributary; branch
one's own style; self-taught manner
drainage basin; catchment basin; river basin; watershed; valley
quicksand
quicksand
fashion (current) of the times; general drift of affairs
fluid; unsettled
exile; banishment; deportation
high-voltage current; high-tension current
Oie school of calligraphy (based on the gyōsho style; popular in the Edo period); Sonen school; Shorenin school
convection
(inferior) imitator; epigone; poor imitation; follower; adherent; person belonging to the same school (e.g. of thought)
workmanship; style
being washed away
one's own way
drift (of an airplane or boat, etc.); leeway; windage
one's own way (esp. of an assertive man); one's own approach
one's own way (esp. of an assertive man); one's own approach
wielding three swords; player who can play as pitcher, fielder and batter
undercurrent
flow rate (esp. water or electricity); quantity of flow; capacity (of output or throughput per unit time)
populace; common run of men; worldly customs
Japanese style; Japanese fashion
hallyu; Korean wave; rise in global popularity of Korean pop culture
Shintō Munen-ryū (school of swordsmanship founded by Fukui Hyōemon Kahei in the 18th century)
celebrities; notables
descendants
one's own style; one's own way (of doing things)
one's own style; one's own way (of doing things)
direct current; DC
distributary; tributary; branched flow (river, current, etc.)
pyroclastic flow
revelation; outpouring
warm current
liquid; fluid
influx of Chinese pop culture (into Japan)
Western ways; Western customs; Western habits
flowing through; conduction
wandering; soil erosion
groundless rumor; groundless rumour; false report
his style; her style; his way (of); her way (of)
style of classical Japanese swordsmanship involving use of two swords
speed of a moving fluid; flow velocity
cold current
translocation; drift
flowing south (e.g. of a river)
rip current
flowing east (e.g. of a river)
the same style; same school; common origin
branch of a school
scrawl; scrawled writing
circulating widely (of news, etc.)
spending the night out (e.g. at a brothel); staying out
round that ends with nobody winning
flowing down (e.g. water in a river); downward flow
Hozoin-ryu (school of sojutsu)
swirling current; eddy; whirlpool; eddy current
Kantei style of calligraphy
undercurrent
meandering stream
circulation
modern; contemporary
perfusion
school one belongs to; one's own unique way; natural flow (of a river); run-of-the-river (electricity generation)
Kanze style; Kanze school of noh
flowing around
polar current
circulation; vortex; gyre
Sekishū school of tea ceremony; Sekishū school of ikebana
Ōhashi style; customary order of setting up the board in which the bishop and rook are placed before pawns
overflow; spill
Japan Current; Kuroshio Current
Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)
laminar flow
the Gulf Stream
Muso Jikiden Eishin-ryu (iaido style)
coastal current; littoral current; alongshore current
axial flow; axial current
Urasenke school of tea ceremony
Oribe school of tea ceremony
school of calligraphy
Sogetsu school of flower arrangement
Senke school of tea ceremony
old current; old style
transformer
ordinary style
forfeiting a pawned article
loss current
Shotokan (style of karate)
influx of Taiwanese pop culture (into Japan)
conduction
Goryū Shinto (sect of amalgamated Shinto)
Ekman current
nearshore currents
countercurrent
current-limiting
current reduction (usu. electrical)
flowing west (e.g. of a river)
Omotesenke school of tea ceremony
Sōwa school of tea ceremony
Matsuo school of tea ceremony
ad hoc group formed to commit crimes
Goju-ryu (karate school)