河

river

8 strokes. Taught in grade 5. Newspaper frequency rank 663.

Readings

• カ (on reading): 河川 (かせん) rivers; 銀河 (ぎんが) Milky Way
• かわ (kun reading): 河原 (かわら) dry riverbed; 三河 (みかわ) Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
• Read as a whole word: 魚河岸 (うおがし) riverside fish market; 河内 (ハノイ) Hanoi (Vietnam); 屁の河童 (へのかっぱ) something easy to do

Components

• 氵
• 可
• 一 radical one
• 亅 radical hook
• 口 radical mouth
• ⺡ radical water, left-side form of 水

Words using 河

• 河川 (かせん) rivers
• 銀河 (ぎんが) Milky Way
• 運河 (うんが) (navigable) canal
• 渡河 (とか) crossing a river
• 大河 (たいが) large river
• 河原 (かわら) dry riverbed
• 三河 (みかわ) Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
• 賽の河原 (さいのかわら) Children's Limbo
• 横河電機 (よこがわでんき) Yokogawa Electric
• 三河弁 (みかわべん) Mikawa dialect (spoken in the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture, former Mikawa Province)
• 魚河岸 (うおがし) riverside fish market
• 河内 (ハノイ) Hanoi (Vietnam)
• 屁の河童 (へのかっぱ) something easy to do
• 赤目河豚 (あかめふぐ) red-eyed puffer (Takifugu chrysops)
• 陸に上がった河童 (おかにあがったかっぱ) a fish out of water
• 恒河沙 (ごうがしゃ) 10^52 (or 10^56)
• 河底撈魚 (ホーテイラオユイ) win on the last discard of a round

156 words in all.

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