Chinese Character Wiki
川

chuān

stream

Pictograph of a river.

Evolution

川 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
川 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
川 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
川 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
川 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

川  

chuān

stream, river; flow; boil; river; creek; plain; an area of level country

川  

Chuān

abbr. for Sichuan Province 四川[Sì​chuān] in southwest China

Most common words with 川
Freq.
Word
Meaning

川

river

四川

Sichuan province (Szechuan) in southwest China, abbr. 川 or 蜀, capital Chengdu 成都

冰川

glacier

四川省

Sichuan province (Szechuan) in southwest China, abbr. 川[Chuān] or 蜀[Shǔ], capital Chengdu 成都[Chéng​dū]

德川

Tokugawa, the ruling clan of Japan from 1550-1850

Component uses

Meaning component in 4 characters (1 verified)

巟 圳 侃 夼

Sound component in 10 characters (4 verified)

顺 順 訓 训 圳 馴 驯 氚 釧 钏

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

㐬

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*t.l̥u[n] (MC -jwen is irregular)

tsyhwen

chuān

stream, river


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.4439% of movies

2092nd most common character in movies

1109th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

3

Unicode

U+5DDD

Shuowen

“川，貫穿通流水也。《虞書》曰：‘濬巜距川’，言深巜之水會為川也。”


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