流れ
Meanings
Noun
1. flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; current
2. flow (of people, things); passage (of time); tide; passing; (changing) trends; tendency
3. course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; process
4. group of people who remain together after the end of an event
5. descent; ancestry; school
6. forfeiture; foreclosure
7. cancellation (usu. as お流れ)
8. drifting; wandering; roaming
Kanji used
Pitch accent
ながれ
Used in vocabulary
川流れ
being carried away by a current; drowning in a river; person who drowned in a river; cancellation; standing up; breaking a promise
Noun
Examples44
田中
Tanaka's teaching goes against the stream of history.
こういう
Once things start going this way, in the end they'll all be much of a muchness.
流れ
The stream falls into the pond.
社会
I would like to put special emphasis on the concept that social ecology is the second school of contemporary environmentalism.
なお
To make matter worse, the traffic was bad.
交通
The current of traffic moved very slowly.