The Shinano River is longer than any river in Japan.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
河川
rivers
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
rivers
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 河川 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 河川 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It is very important for us to love a river.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 河川.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 河川.
Directly before
- 一条河川1
- 爱惜河川1
Directly after
- 河川更长1
- 河川是1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 河川
What does 河川 mean in Chinese?
河川 (héchuān) means rivers.
How do you pronounce 河川?
河川 is pronounced héchuān.
Is 河川 an HSK word?
河川 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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