Keyword
river
- stream
- Frequency
- #1100
- Strokes
- 3
Readings
chuān100%
Mnemonic
A river's flow; compare 巛
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
州prefecture训to teach顺to obey圳a furrow in a field荒desolate驯tame侃upright and honest卅thirty钏armlet氚tritium夼low ground㐬pennant訓to teach
Used in vocabulary
川
(bound form) river; creek; plain; an area of level country
四川省
Sichuan Province, capital Chengdu 成都市 (ChéngdūShì) (short name 川 (Chuān) or 蜀 (Shǔ))
冰川
glacier
仁川
Incheon, a city in South Korea
河川
rivers
山川
mountains and rivers; landscape
川普
Donald Trump (informal alternative to 特朗普 (Tèlǎngpǔ)); (linguistics) Sichuan-accented Mandarin (abbr. for 四川普通话 (SìchuānPǔtōnghuà))
石川
Ishikawa (Japanese surname and place name)
小川
Ogawa (Japanese surname)
四川大学
Sichuan University
川菜
Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
德川
Tokugawa, Japanese shogunal clan (1603–1867)
中川
Nakagawa (Japanese surname and place name)
银川市
Yinchuan, prefecture-level city and capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 宁夏回族自治区 (NíngxiàHuízúZìzhìqū)
川西
Western Sichuan
川崎
Kawasaki (name)
平川
an expanse of flat land
川剧
Sichuan opera
四川盆地
Sichuan basin
汶川县
Wenchuan, a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿坝藏族羌族自治州 (ĀbàZàngzúQiāngzúZìzhìzhōu), Sichuan
川流不息
the stream flows without stopping (idiom); unending flow
利川市
Lichuan, a county-level city in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州 (ĒnshīTǔjiāzúMiáozúZìzhìzhōu), Hubei
汉川市
Hanchuan, a county-level city in Xiaogan City 孝感市 (XiàogǎnShì), Hubei
周小川
Zhou Xiaochuan (1948–), Chinese economist, governor of the People's Bank of China 中国人民银行 (ZhōngguóRénmínYínháng) 2002–2018