川

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 Descendants 1.1.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Alternative forms 3.1.2 Synonyms 3.2 Suffix 3.2.1 Alternative forms 3.3 Kanji 3.3.1 Readings 3.3.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Old Korean 6.1 Noun 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Han character

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

1. stream, river
2. flow
3. boil

[edit] Descendants

• つ
• ツ

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

川 (jyutping cyun1, Yale chyun1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

川 (hiragana かわ, romaji kawa)

1. river, stream, brook

[edit] Alternative forms

• 河

[edit] Synonyms

• 河川 (かせん, kasen)

[edit] Suffix

川 (hiragana かわ, romaji kawa)

川 (hiragana がわ, romaji gawa)

1. suffix used with names of rivers, especially Japanese rivers

[edit] Alternative forms

• 河

[edit] Kanji

川 (grade 1 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: せん (sen)
• Kun: かわ (kawa)
• Nanori: か (ka), こ (ko), さわ (sawa)

[edit] Compounds

川上 (kawakami): upstream 川瀬 (kawase): rapids 川原 (kawara): dry riverbed 川下 (kawashimo): downstream 川岸 (kawagishi): river bank 川口 (kawaguchi): mouth of river 川端 (kawabata): riverbank

川柳 (senryū): comic haiku 小川 (ogawa): brook 河川 (kasen): rivers 山川 (sansen): mountains and rivers 滝川 (takigawa): rapids 谷川 (tanigawa): mountain stream

堀川 (horikawa): canal 淀川 (yodogawa): a river in Japan 川沿い (kawazoi): along the river 河川敷 (kasenshiki): riverbed 江戸川 (edogawa): Edo River 天の川 (amanogawa): Milky Way

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

川
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 내()

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

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

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[edit] Old Korean

[edit] Noun

川 (nae)

1. (Goguryeo) river

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

川 (xuyên, xiên)