Jisho

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3 strokes
Radical:
river 巛 (川, 巜)
Parts:
stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
Kun:
かわ
On:
セン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
181 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 川柳 【センリュウ】 senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem
  • 川きゅう 【センキュウ】 cnidium rhizome (Cnidium officinale)
  • 山川 【サンセン】 mountains and rivers
  • 四川 【シセン】 Sichuan (China), Szechuan, Szechwan

Kun reading compounds

  • 川 【かわ】 river, stream, River, the ... river
  • 川上 【かわかみ】 upper reaches of a river, upstream
  • 堀川 【ほりかわ】 canal
  • 山川 【さんせん】 mountains and rivers

Readings

Japanese names:
か、 こ、 さわ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
chuan1
Korean:
cheon

Spanish

  • arroyo
  • río

Portuguese

  • corrente
  • rio

French

  • rivière
  • fleuve
  • radical rivière (no. 47)
39 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
59 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
48 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
111 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1447 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
41 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
49 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
20 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.10 Japanese for Busy People
33 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
33 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
101 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
548 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
6 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
129 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8673 Morohashi
6 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1526 New Nelson (John Haig)
127 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
134 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
196 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
21 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1254 2001 Kanji
0a3.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-1-2 SKIP code
2200.0 Four corner code
1-32-78 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5ddd Unicode hex code

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 川獺 【カワウソ】 otter (Lutra lutra), Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)

Kun reading compounds

  • 川獺 【かわうそ】 otter (Lutra lutra), Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)
  • 川獺 【かわうそ】 otter (Lutra lutra), Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)
  • 海獺 【うみうそ】 sea lion
  • 川獺 【かわうそ】 otter (Lutra lutra), Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)
  • 獺魚を祭る 【かわうそうおをまつる】 one of the 72 climates (from the 16th to the 20th of the first lunar month)
  • 川獺 【かわうそ】 otter (Lutra lutra), Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)
  • 獺魚を祭る 【かわうそうおをまつる】 one of the 72 climates (from the 16th to the 20th of the first lunar month)
  • ユーラシア川獺 【ユーラシアかわうそ】 European otter (Lutra lutra), common otter, Eurasian otter
  • 小爪川獺 【こつめかわうそ】 Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ta4, ta3
Korean:
dal, chal

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2917 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2791 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
20782 Morohashi
3615 New Nelson (John Haig)
3g16.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-16 SKIP code
4728.6 Four corner code
1-64-60 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
737a Unicode hex code