Character Details
| river | Ascii: — | w361 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 河 | hé | heuh | 2 | 氵 (water) + 可 (can) → river | 河 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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With only a little bit of water you can have the beginning of a river. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - The Yellow River is China's mother river | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 85 - 氏 | shì | water | clan | clan mark | 氏 民 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 氵 (water) + 可 (can) → river | 水 (semantic) | 可 (phonetic) | phonetic from 可 | ||||||||