リュウ
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. fashion; way; style; manner
2. school (of thought)
Suffix
3. class; rank; rate
usu. after a number
Noun
4. current (electrical, water, etc.); flow; stream
Pitch accent
リュ
Used in vocabulary (140 in total)
self-taught method; one's own way; one's own style
tributary; branch
celebrities; notables
atmospheric current; air current; airflow
diversion; appropriation (e.g. of funds); misappropriation; re-use (e.g. old computer parts); recycling
(an) exile
school (e.g. of ikebana)
downstream; lower reaches of a river; lower classes
elegance; taste; refinement
style of classical Japanese swordsmanship involving use of two swords
fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic
sales channels; (product) distribution channels
confluence (of rivers); merge (of traffic); conflux; union (e.g. of forces); linking up; merging
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
first-class; top grade; characteristic; peculiar; school (e.g. of a performance art); one flag
meteor; shooting star; falling star
circulation (money, goods, etc.); distribution; circulation (air, water, etc.); ventilation; negotiable (e.g. shares); distributional
discharge; outward flow; efflux; leak of (private) information or pictures
upper stream; upper course; upstream; upper classes
way (of doing things); method; style; school (e.g. of poetry)
counter-current; adverse tide; regurgitation (of blood)
water current
(the) mainstream; main course (of a river); main stream
fluent (in a language); flowing
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
raging stream; rapids
woman (writer, artist, aviator, etc.)
running water; stream
second-rate; inferior
mid-stream; middle course; middle class
physical distribution; distribution of goods; logistics
meteor swarm; meteor shower
vicissitudes; continual change; transmigration; metempsychosis
source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
streamline shape; aerodynamic shape
wandering (e.g. bird, exile, lifestyle); wandering alone in a strange country
groundless rumor (rumour)
main course (of a river); mainstream; main current (e.g. of thought)
drainage basin; catchment basin; river basin; watershed; valley
liquid sound
swift current; rapids
one's own style; self-taught manner
fashion (current) of the times; general drift of affairs
exile; banishment; deportation
fluid; unsettled
high-voltage current; high-tension current
(inferior) imitator; epigone; poor imitation; follower; adherent; person belonging to the same school (e.g. of thought)
convection
workmanship; style
(air) turbulence
avalanche of earth and rocks
being washed away
flow line; streamline; lines representing the flow of a fluid
one's own way
another style; another school (of thought, karate, etc.)
one's own way of thinking; one's independent approach
flow rate (esp. water or electricity); quantity of flow; capacity (of output or throughput per unit time)
wielding three swords; player who can play as pitcher, fielder and batter
influenza; flu
bottom current; undercurrent
populace; common run of men; worldly customs
Japanese style; Japanese fashion
descendants
Shinkage-Ryu (style of Japanese fencing)
direct current; DC
distributary; tributary; branched flow (river, current, etc.)
groundless rumor; groundless rumour; false report
pyroclastic flow
wandering; soil erosion
revelation; outpouring
Western ways; Western customs; Western habits
warm current
flowing through; conduction
liquid; fluid
streamlet; brooklet; rivulet
his style; her style; his way (of); her way (of)
speed of moving fluid
cold current
cancelling a meeting; adjournment of a meeting (due to lack of attendance)
flowing south (e.g. of a river)
rip current
the same style; same school; common origin
stray bullet
scrawl; scrawled writing
branch of a school
Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)
circulating widely (of news, etc.)
round that ends with nobody winning
Kantei style of calligraphy
flowing down (e.g. water in a river); downward flow
Hozoin-ryu (school of sojutsu)
undercurrent
swirling current; eddy; whirlpool; eddy current
meandering stream
flowing around
circulation
roving robber; marauder
modern; contemporary
perfusion
Japanese style of calligraphy based on the gyōsho style popular in the Edo period
polar current
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
main current
Sogetsu school of flower arrangement
loss current
old current; old style
transformer
ordinary style
forfeiting a pawned article
Shotokan (style of karate)
influx of Taiwanese pop culture (into Japan)
conduction
Goryū Shinto (sect of amalgamated Shinto)
translocation; drift
Ekman current
nearshore currents
countercurrent
current reduction (usu. electrical)
flowing west (e.g. of a river)