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河 : River

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Components:
氵

river

On 'yomi:
カ(ka)
Kun 'yomi:
かわ(kawa)
Nanori:
かっ(ka) こ(ko) こう(kou)
Strokes:8
Radical:氵 (85)
Usage Rating:663
JLPT:N2
old JLPT:2
Grade:5
Unicode:06cb3
jis208:18-47
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河 Usage examples

虎河豚(とらふぐ)tiger globefish (poisonous fish, Takifugu rubripes)
河清(かせい)clearing of the river water
河流(かりゅう)stream
河の源(かわのみなもと)fountainhead
暴虎馮河(ぼうこひょうが)foolhardy courage
河船(かせん)riverboat, rivercraft
アンドロメダ銀河(アンドロメダぎんが)Andromeda galaxy
コンパクト銀河(コンパクトぎんが)compact galaxy
スエズ運河(スエズうんが)Suez Canal
セイファート銀河(セイファートぎんが)Seyfert galaxy
河海豚(カワイルカ)river dolphin
河漢(かかん)Milky Way
河原鳩(カワラバト)rock pigeon (Columba livia), rock dove
河跡湖(かせきこ)crescentic lake, oxbow lake, billabong
河川工学(かせんこうがく)river engineering
河猪(かわいのしし)bush pig
遡河魚(さっかぎょ)
溯河魚(さっかぎょ)
anadromous fish (fish that migrates upstream, e.g. salmon)
屍山血河(しざんけつが)heaps of bodies and streams of blood, fierce battle
百年河清(ひゃくねんかせい)waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear, waiting in vain for an unlikely event, waiting for pigs to fly, When the sky falls, we shall catch larks
星河豚(ホシフグ)starry toado (pufferfish, Arothron firmamentum)
河岸を変える(かしをかえる)to try a new venue for eating, drinking, night amusement, etc.
河津掛け(かわづかけ)hooking backward counter throw
大河ドラマ(たいがドラマ)long-running historical drama series on NHK TV