河 — Chinese character
河
hé
river, stream; the Yellow river
- Pinyin
- hé
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 氵 可
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 可
- Japanese
- 河 as a kanji
Common words with 河
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 河流 | hé liú | river; 条 (tiáo) |
| 河道 | hé dào | river course; river channel |
| 运河 (運河) | yùn hé | canal |
| 河谷 | hé gǔ | river valley |
| 河水 | hé shuǐ | river water |
| 河口 | hé kǒu | estuary; the mouth of a river |
| 河边 (河邊) | hé biān | river bank |
| 大河 | dà hé | large river (esp the Yellow River) |
| 山河 | shān hé | mountains and rivers; the whole country |
| 河川 | hé chuān | rivers |
| 河岸 | hé àn | riverside; river bank |
| 江河 | jiāng hé | river |
English words written with 河
河 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Art of War 1 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 10 · Zhuangzi 31 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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