Chinese symbol for “waterway”
航道
háng dào
waterway; ship channel
The closest CC-CEDICT match for waterway is 航道 (háng dào), defined as: waterway; ship channel.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “waterway”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 航道.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 航空 | háng kōng | aviation |
| 航班 | háng bān | (scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing |
| 航线 (航線) | háng xiàn | air or shipping route |
| 航空公司 | háng kōng gōng sī | airline; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 导航 (導航) | dǎo háng | (lit. and fig.) to navigate |
| 航天 | háng tiān | space flight |
| 知道 | zhī dào | to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5] |
| 报道 (報道) | bào dào | to report (news); report |
See also: Japanese symbol for “waterway”.
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.