Kanji1 / 3
川 kanji
stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
セン
Kun readings
かわ
Words with 川
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1河川Popularrivers
- —山川Popularmountains and rivers
- —川柳Popularsenryū; comic haiku; humorous seventeen-mora poem
- —河川敷Popularflood plain; river terrace; riverside area; area between river and river bank
- —四川Sichuan (China); Szechuan; Szechwan
- —支川affluent; branch stream that flows into a main stream
- —仁川Incheon (South Korea); Inchon
- —派川distributary; branch
- —川劇Sichuan opera
- —百川hundred rivers; many rivers; all rivers
- —銀川Yinchuan (China)
- —廃川dried-up river (caused by intentional diversion of the flow); filled-in river; abandoned river
- —河川水river water
- —四川省Sichuan (China); Szechuan; Szechwan
- —河川学potamology; fluviology
- —河川法River Act
- —河川工事riparian works
- —河川工学river engineering
- —山川草木nature; natural scenery
- —山川万里being far away across mountains and rivers