河

Translingual

Etymology

Radical: 氵 (水) + Phonetic: 可

Han character

河 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水一弓口 (EMNR), four-corner 3112₀, composition ⿰氵可)

References

• KangXi: page 613, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17245
• Dae Jaweon: page 1006, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1582, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6CB3

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		河

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hé (he²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ho⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): hô
• Wu (WT Romanisation): hhe (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: hé
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ho²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
    • IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ho⁴
    • Yale: hòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ho⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /hɔː²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • POJ: hô
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô
    • Tâi-lô: hô
    • IPA (Taipei): /hə²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hə¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: hhe (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɦᴇ²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (河, reconstructed)
Character (河), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 歌 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 胡歌切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦɑ/	/ɣɑ/	/ɣɑ/	/ɦɑ/	/ɦa/	/ɣɑ/	/ɣɑ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (河, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
河								hé								‹ ha ›								/*[C.ɡ]ˤaj/								river
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
河					7459					可					歌					1					何					/*ɡaːl/

Noun

河 (classifier 條/条, 道)

1. river
2. stream

Derived terms

• 河流 (héliú)
• 川 (chuān)
• 黄河 (Huáng Hé)
• 淮河 (Huái Hé)
• 泰晤士河 (Tàiwùshì Hé)
• 密西西比河 (Mìxīxībǐ Hé)

See also

• 川 (chuān)
• 河流 (héliú)
• 江 (jiāng)
• 水流 (shuǐliú)
• 溪流 (xīliú)
• 小河 (xiǎohé)

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Japanese

Kanji

河

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. river

Readings

• Goon: が (ga)
• Kan’on: か (ka)
• Kun: かわ (kawa)

Compounds

Compounds

河馬, カバ (kaba); 河馬 (かわうま, kawauma): a hippopotamus 大河 (おおかわ, ōkawa; たいが, taiga): a large river 山河 (さんか, sanka; さんが, sanga): mountains and rivers 氷河 (ひょうが, hyōga): a glacier 決河 (けっか, kekka): the act of a river breaching a dike or dam due to flood; a river thus overflowing

河豚 (ふぐ, fugu): a fugu, a blowfish or pufferfish 渡河 (とか, toka): the act of fording a river 運河 (うんが, unga): canal 銀河 (ぎんが, ginga): a galaxy; the Milky Way

Alternative forms

• 川

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Korean

Hanja

河 (ha) (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune-Reischauer ha, Yale ha)

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Vietnamese

Noun

河 (hà, nghiệp, xương)

1. river