河川

Chinese

		river	river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (河川)		河	川

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): héchuān

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄔㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ho⁴ cyun¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hò-chhôn
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hô-chhoan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: héchuān
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄔㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: héchuan
    • Wade–Giles: ho²-chʻuan¹
    • Yale: hé-chwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: herchuan
    • Palladius: хэчуань (xɛčuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ho⁴ cyun¹
    • Yale: hòh chyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ho⁴ tsyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ho⁴ qun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔː²¹ t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hò-chhôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: ho^ˇ con^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ho² con¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ho¹¹ t͡sʰon²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô-chhoan
    • Tâi-lô: hô-tshuan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoizhoafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ho²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ho²⁴⁻²² t͡sʰuan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho¹³⁻²² t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ho²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ²³⁻³³ t͡sʰuan⁴⁴/

Noun

河川

1. rivers

Japanese

Kanji in this term
河	川
か Grade: 5	せん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Etymology

From 河 (ka, “river, large river”) +‎ 川 (sen, “river”).

Noun

河(か)川(せん) • (kasen) 

1. river; rivers

Synonyms

• 川(かわ) (kawa) (more often used in colloquial)

Derived terms

• 河川工学(かせんこうがく) (kasenkōgaku, “river engineering”)
• 河川敷(かせんしき) (kasenshiki, “riverbed”)

Korean

Hanja in this term
河	川

Noun

河川 • (hacheon) (hangeul 하천)

1. hanja form^? of 하천 (“river; rivers”)