川 — Chinese character
川
chuān
stream, river
- Pinyin
- chuān
- Radical
- 47 ⼮ (River)
- Strokes
- 3
- Components
- 丿 丨 丨
- Formation
- ideographic — A river's flow; compare 巛
- Japanese
- 川 as a kanji
Common words with 川
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冰川 | bīng chuān | glacier |
| 河川 | hé chuān | rivers |
| 山川 | shān chuān | mountains and rivers; landscape |
| 平川 | píng chuān | an expanse of flat land |
| 川流不息 | chuān liú bù xī | the stream flows without stopping (idiom); unending flow |
| 百川 | bǎi chuān | rivers |
| 川芎 | chuān xiōng | chuanxiong rhizome (rhizome of Ligusticum wallichii, used in TCM) |
| 海纳百川 (海納百川) | hǎi nà bǎi chuān | all rivers run into the sea; use different means to obtain the same result (idiom) |
| 一马平川 (一馬平川) | yī mǎ píng chuān | flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom); wide expanse of flat country |
| 冰川期 | bīng chuān qī | ice age |
| 川资 (川資) | chuān zī | travel expenses |
| 川木香 | chuān mù xiāng | root of Vladimiria souliei (used in TCM); Dolomiaea souliei |
English words written with 川
川 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 2 · Analects 2 · I Ching 12 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 10 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 15
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 32
- Analects 6.4
- Analects 9.16
- Hexagram 5
- Hexagram 6
- Hexagram 13
- Hexagram 15
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