川

See also 州, and 巛

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – compare 水.

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

川 (radical 47 巛+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 中中中 (LLL), four-corner 2200₀)

1. river, stream, brook
2. flow
3. boil

Descendants

• つ
• ツ

References

• KangXi: page 323, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8673
• Dae Jaweon: page 624, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 32, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5DDD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

川 (jyutping cyun1, Yale chyun1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

川 (POJ chhon, Guangdong tsh'on¹ [Meixian], ch'on¹ [Hailu, Kwangtung]; ts'on¹, Hagfa Pinyim con1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

川 (grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. river

Readings

• Goon: せん (sen)
• Kan’on: せん (sen)
• Kun: かわ (kawa)
• Nanori: か (ka), こ (ko), さわ (sawa)

Compounds

Compounds

川上 (かわかみ, kawakami): upstream 川下 (かわしも, kawashimo): downstream 川岸 (かわぎし, kawagishi): river bank 川口 (かわぐち, kawaguchi): mouth of river 川崎 (かわさき, Kawasaki): Kawasaki 川瀬 (かわせ, kawase): rapids 川蝉 (かわせみ, kawasemi): kingfisher 川端 (かわばた, kawabata): riverbank 川縁 (かわぶち, kawabuchi; かわべり, kawaberi): riverside

川嫁 (かわよめ, kawayome): a river nymph 川原 (かわら, kawara): a riparian plain, the flats alongside a river 川柳 (せんりゅう, senryū): comic haiku 小川 (おがわ, ogawa): brook 河川 (かせん, kasen): rivers 山川 (さんせん, sansen): mountains and rivers 滝川 (たきがわ, takigawa): rapids 谷川 (たにがわ, tanigawa): mountain stream

堀川 (ほりかわ, horikawa): canal 淀川 (よどがわ, Yodogawa): the Yodogawa River in Japan 川下り (かわくだり, kawakudari): going downstream 川沿い (かわぞい, kawazoi): along the river ドン川 (どんがわ, Dongawa): the Don River 天の川 (あまのがわ, amanogawa): Milky Way 江戸川 (えどがわ, Edogawa): the Edo River 河川敷 (かせんしき, kasenshiki): riverbed

Noun

川 (hiragana かわ, romaji kawa)

1. river, stream, brook

Synonyms

• 河川 (かせん, kasen)

Alternative forms

• 河

Suffix

川 (hiragana かわ, romaji -kawa)

1. the ... river, used in named of rivers or streams

川 (hiragana がわ, romaji -gawa)

1. the ... river

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Korean

Hanja

川
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 천 (revised: cheon, McCune-Reischauer: ch'ŏn)

• Name (hangeul): 내()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

川 (pinyin chuān (chuan1), wú (wu2), Wade-Giles ch'uan¹, wu²)

1. river
2. (abbreviation) Sichuan province, China

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Vietnamese

Han character

川 (xuyên, xiên)