流 （リュウ） way, manner, style, fashion, mode, school (e.g. of flower arrangement), class, rate, rank, flow, current, stream

旒 （リュウ） counter for flags, banners, etc.

清流 （セイリュウ） clear stream

火砕流 （カサイリュウ） pyroclastic flow

流 （ル） exile (second most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

流刑 （リュウケイ） exile, banishment, deportation

配流 （ハイル） exile, banishment

中流 （チュウル） banishment (to a somewhat distant province), middle-degree punishment of the three banishment punishments under the ritsuryō system

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

流れ込む （ながれこむ） to flow into, to pour into, to stream into

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, to cause a miscarriage, to abort