To Flush Something
To Pour Something, To Set Something Afloat
transitive verb, godan verb
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means stream. If you're streaming water, it might be to flush something. Alternatively, to pour something makes a stream of liquid, and to set something afloat is to make something flow in the stream.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you:
What do you do with someone who is a nagger (one who nags)? You have to flush them down the toilet. Imagine someone nagging you to do your chores so you flush them down the toilet, somehow.
水で流す
to wash away with water
シャワーで流す
to shower off
テレビで流す
to broadcast on TV
川に流す
to set floating down a river
水に流す
to forgive and forget
海に流す
to discharge into the ocean
血を流す
to shed blood
音楽を流す
to play music
水を流す
to pour water, to flush a toilet
トイレは使ったら水を流しましょう。
Flush the toilet after using it.
そうめんを竹に流して食べるのが「流しそうめん」です。
"Nagashi somen" is where you flow somen noodles through a bamboo tube and eat it.
毎日汗を流して働く労働者たちに感謝の気持ちもないのか？
Are you not even grateful to the workers who sweat and work every day?