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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
- —河川工学river engineering
- —屍山血河heaps of bodies and streams of blood; fierce battle
- —百年河清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
- —楕円銀河elliptical galaxy
- —小人河馬pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)
- —銀河座標galactic coordinates
- —銀河赤道galactic equator
- —超銀河団supercluster of galaxies
- —氷河擦痕glacial striae; glacial striations; glacial grooves
- —降河回遊downstream migration
- —一級河川class A river; specified waterways of special importance protected by the government
- —活動銀河active galaxy
- —渦巻銀河spiral galaxy
- —渦状銀河spiral galaxy
- —電波銀河radio galaxy
- —二河白道the road to paradise is a white road between two rivers, one of water (wrath) and one of fire (greed)
- —感潮河川tidal river
- —黄河文明Yellow River civilization; Huang civilization; cradle of Chinese civilization
- —河道閉塞natural damming (of a river due to landslide, etc.)
- —中小河川small and medium-sized rivers