川

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See also: 州 and 巛

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
川-order.gif

Han character[edit]

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Radical 47 川

川 (radical 47 巛+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 中中中 (LLL), four-corner 22000)

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 323, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8673
  • Dae Jaweon: page 624, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 32, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5DDD

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 川

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 川
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
川-oracle.svg 川-bronze.svg 川-bigseal.svg 川-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (川) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
川 *kʰjon
釧 *kʰjons
巛 *kʰuːn
巡 *sɢljun
馴 *sɢljun
紃 *sɢljun, *ɢljun
甽 *kljuns, *kʷeːnʔ
順 *ɢljuns
訓 *qʰuns

Pictogram (象形) – compare 水 (OC *qʰʷljilʔ).

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 川
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 仙 (78)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 昌緣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕʰiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʰʷiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕʰjuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cʰwian/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕʰiuɛn/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕʰĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕʰi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chuān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 川
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chuān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyhwen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*t.l̥u[n]/ (MC -jwen is irregular)
English stream, river

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 川
Reading # 1/1
No. 1628
Phonetic
component		 川
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 穿
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰjon/

Definitions[edit]

川

  1. river; stream; brook
  2. (of water) to flow
  3. to boil food for a short time in water
  4. Short for 四川 (Sìchuān, “Sichuan Province, China”).

See also[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
川

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. river

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

Noun[edit]

川 ‎(hiragana かわ, romaji kawa, historical hiragana かは)

  1. river, stream, brook

Synonyms[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Suffix[edit]

川 ‎(hiragana かわ, romaji -kawa, historical hiragana かは)

  1. the ... river, used in named of rivers or streams

川 ‎(hiragana がわ, romaji -gawa, historical hiragana がは)

  1. the ... river

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

川 • ‎(cheon)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 천 (revised: cheon, McCune-Reischauer: ch'ŏn)
  • Name (hangeul): 내()
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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

川 (xuyên, xiên)

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