Chinese symbol for “riverbed”
河床
hé chuáng
riverbed
The closest CC-CEDICT match for riverbed is 河床 (hé chuáng), defined as: riverbed.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 河床.
| 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 |
| 临床 (臨床) | lín chuáng | (medicine) clinical |
| 起床 | qǐ chuáng | to get out of bed; to get up |
See also: Japanese symbol for “riverbed”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.