りゅう
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. way; manner; style; fashion; mode
Is this a merchant-style greeting?
Suffix
2. school (e.g. of flower arrangement)
3. class; rate; rank
oft. after a number
4. flow; current; stream
Pitch accent
りゅ
う
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
confluence (of rivers); flowing together; joining; joining (of people, groups, parties, etc.); union; linking up
roving robber; marauder
Shinto-ryu (school of kenjutsu)
atmospheric current; air current; airflow
running water; flowing water; stream
main course (of a river); mainstream; main current (e.g. of thought)
first-class; first-rate; characteristic (of); peculiar (to); school (e.g. of flower arrangement); one flag
fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic
sales channels; (product) distribution channels
cancelling a meeting; adjournment of a meeting (due to lack of attendance)
backward flow; backflow; countercurrent; reflux; regurgitation
school (of painting, ikebana, etc.)
wandering (e.g. bird, exile, lifestyle); wandering alone in a strange country
streamline
influenza; flu
streamlet; brooklet; rivulet
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)
swift current; rapids
liquid sound
(air) turbulence
avalanche of earth and rocks; debris flow; mudslide; landslide
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)
stray bullet
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
water current
(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
physical distribution; distribution of goods; logistics
Ittō-ryū; school of swordsmanship founded during the early Edo period, from which many later schools branched
mid-stream; middle course; middle class
source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
continual change; vicissitudes; transmigration; metempsychosis
streamlined shape; aerodynamic shape
tributary; branch
drainage basin; catchment basin; river basin; watershed; valley
one's own style; self-taught manner
quicksand
quicksand
fashion (current) of the times; general drift of affairs
fluid; unsettled
exile; banishment; deportation
high-voltage current; high-tension current
convection
Oie school of calligraphy (based on the gyōsho style; popular in the Edo period); Sonen school; Shorenin school
(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
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
drift (of an airplane or boat, etc.); leeway; windage
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)
hallyu; Korean wave; rise in global popularity of Korean pop culture
populace; common run of men; worldly customs
Japanese style; Japanese fashion
liquid; fluid
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)
distributary; tributary; branched flow (river, current, etc.)
direct current; DC
pyroclastic flow
warm current
revelation; outpouring
Western ways; Western customs; Western habits
flowing through; conduction
wandering; soil erosion
influx of Chinese pop culture (into Japan)
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
rip current
flowing south (e.g. of a river)
flowing east (e.g. of a river)
branch of a school
the same style; same school; common origin
scrawl; scrawled writing
circulating widely (of news, etc.)
round that ends with nobody winning
spending the night out (e.g. at a brothel); staying out
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
laminar flow
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
circulation; vortex; gyre
flowing around
polar current
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)
current-limiting
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 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)
Examples (3 in total)
That's the British way!
Is this a merchant-style greeting?
It was because I had heard that adding a large amount of sugar is the Italian way.