hé
river
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 可 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 河
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
river | ||
Henan province (Honan) in central China, abbr. 豫, capital Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州[Zhèngzhōu] | ||
the river of love | ||
river | ||
river bank |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[C.g]ˤaj | ha | hé | river |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 22.8736% of movies
1178th most common character in movies
574th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6CB3 |
Shuowen | “河，水。出焞煌塞外昆侖山，發原注海。从水，可聲。” |
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