河 (hé): meaning and stroke order
河 (hé) means river (条,道), (bound form) the Yellow River, (bound form) the Milky Way.
河
- Simplified
- 河
- Traditional
- 河 (same form)
- Pinyin
- hé
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Stroke order of 河
河
- hé river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]); (bound form) the Yellow River
- 8 strokes
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Meaning of 河
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hé
- river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4])
- (bound form) the Yellow River
- (bound form) the Milky Way
- (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2 fen3]
Radical and structure
- 河
- Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 8 strokes · 氵 on the left, 可 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 河
- 大河 dà hé large river (esp the Yellow River)
- 河水 hé shuǐ river water
- 河道 hé dào river course; river channel
- 黄河 Huáng Hé Yellow River or Huang He
- 江河 Jiāng Hé Yangtze and Yellow rivers
河 in our stories
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房间很大，窗户外面就是河。
fángjiān hěn dà chuānghu wàimiàn jiùshì hé
The room was big, and right outside the window was the river.
From the story Next Friday HSK 2
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河里的水很少，菜也快死了。
hé lǐ de shuǐ hěn shǎo cài yě kuài sǐ le
There was very little water in the river, and the vegetables were nearly dead.
From the story The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
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大禹没有急着动手，而是走遍了大江大河，把每一处的地形都仔细地记了下来。
Dà Yǔ méiyǒu jízhe dòngshǒu érshì zǒubiàn le dà jiāng dà hé bǎ měi yí chù de dìxíng dōu zǐxì de jì le xiàlai
Yu did not rush in. Instead he travelled every great river and carefully recorded the lie of the land at every point.
From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
Stories using 河
- Next Friday HSK 2
- The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
- Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6
- Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- Nüwa mends the sky HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).