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Kanji Detail for 河 - "river, stream, flow"
河
- Meaning
河 means "river, stream, flow."
River - A large flowing body of water.
Stream - A watercourse; a flowing channel.
Milky Way - The galaxy seen across the sky.
Yellow River - China's great river.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
river
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
river; stream; the Yellow River
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]); (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way; (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2 fen3]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
river, stream; the Yellow river
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Name of a river. Today called the Yellow River. A great river of China. Source is at the eastern foot of Bayankala Mountain in Qinghai. Flows through Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Pingyuan, Hebei, Shandong, and enters the sea. Total length is over 8,800 li. Its lower reaches have changed many times throughout history. Hence, there are names like Yu's River, the Old Yellow River, and the New Yellow River, because the course it takes and where it enters the sea have differed. | A general term for waterways. As in canals (運河), inland rivers (內河). | 河漢 (He-han). Refers to the Milky Way. Lofty and boundless. Hence, exaggerated talk that cannot be trusted is also called 河漢. The phrase comes from Zhuangzi.
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Sentences including 河
これが河？
Is this a river?