Character · Actions
流
ながれ nagareながす nagasuながされる nagasareru
flow, current
Composition
Origin
Water (氵) beside an upside-down child swept along by the current: that which flows.
In the thoughts
- 流れnagarecurrent, flow
- 流すnagasulet flow
- 流されるnagasareruswept away
Proverbs carrying this character
- 109 ゆく河の流れは絶えずして、しかももとの水にあらず The river flows on and on, and yet the water is never the same.
- 208 水に流す Let the water carry it away.
- 294 智に働けば角が立つ。情に棹させば流される。意地を通せば窮屈だ。 Act on reason, and you grow sharp-cornered. Pole along feeling, and you are swept away. Force your will, and you are cramped. Decidedly, the human world is hard to live in.