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河 kanji
river
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
カ
Kun readings
かわ
Words with 河
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —河清clearing of the river water
- —河流stream
- —河漢Milky Way
- —河魚river fish
- —河食fluvial erosion
- —河谷river valley
- —星河Milky Way
- —河渠waterway; canal; river
- —渠河waterway; canal; river
- —河伯kappa (mythical water-dwelling creature); river god
- —河神guardian deity of rivers; river god
- —河道river channel; floodway
- —河海rivers and seas
- —河身(river) channel
- —河心center of a river; middle of a river; midstream
- —氷河期glacial period; glacial epoch; glacial era; ice age; tough period; drought (of opportunities, jobs, etc.)
- —恒河沙10^52 (or 10^56); innumerable
- —河口港port at the mouth of a river
- —銀河系Milky Way galaxy; Milky Way; the Galaxy; galactic system; galaxy
- —河跡湖crescentic lake; oxbow lake; billabong