Kanji 川

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川

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Radical: ⼮ (47)

Strokes: 3

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On:

セン

sen

Kun:

かわ

kawa

Reading in names:

か、こ、さわ

ka, ko, sawa

Meanings:

река

stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)

річка

Grade: 1

JLPT: 5

Kanji shape:

Homonyms: 河, 皮, 革

Synonyms: 河, 江

Variants: 巛

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Вид на РЕКУ сверху, а по ней плывет тонкое бревно (или ветка)

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chillarea92

11.01.2022 15:48

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Берега, русло и по центру поток, и его направление.

info019

05.05.2021 11:50

Examples

小川

おがわ

ogawa

речка

small stream, brook

川

かわ

kawa

река; речка

river

川上

かわかみ

kawakami

верховье

upper reaches of a river

川下

かわしも

kawashimo

низовье

downstream

江戸川

えどがわ

edogawa

Edo River

河川

かせん

kasen

rivers

Reading in other languages

Korean: 천

Korean (latin): cheon

Pinyin: chuan1

Vietnam: Xuyên

Encoding

BIG5: A4 74

DECIMAL: 24029

HEX: 5DDD

JIS_LEVEL: 1

MINKUTEN: 1-32-78

UTF16: 5DDD

UTF8: E5 B7 9D

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A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Ken Henshall): 59

A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall): 48

Essential Kanji (P.G. O'Neill): 41

Gakken Kanji Dictionary ("A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage"): 111

Japanese For Busy People: 2.10

Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki; White Rabbit Press): 49

Japanese Names (P.G. O'Neill): 20

Kanji & Kana (Spahn & Hadamitzky): 33

Kanji & Kana (Spahn & Hadamitzky, 2 edition): 33

Kanji Learners Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 1999): 1

Kanji Learners Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 2 edition, 2013): 1

Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono): 101

Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide: 548

Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 2013): 6

Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette): 129

Morohashi Daikanwajiten (Volume 4, page 0326): 8673

New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern, 1990): 6

Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig): 127

Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig, 6 edition): 134

The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley): 196

The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Andrew Nelson): 1447

The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary (John Haig): 1526

Tuttle Kanji Cards: 21

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