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U+6CB3, 河
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CB3

[U+6CB2]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6CB4]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 85, +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水一弓口 (EMNR), four-corner 31120, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 613, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17245
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1006, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1582, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6CB3
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡaːl): semantic (water) + phonetic (OC *kʰaːlʔ).

Etymology

Originally particularly used for the Yellow River, with other rivers known as (OC *qʰʷljilʔ). Later extended generally as a word for rivers in northern China but the influence of (OC *kroːŋ, “Yangtze River; river in southern China”) has meant that modern usage tends to favor it for shorter rivers and creeks except in historical cases.

Further etymology uncertain. Various hypotheses have been proposed:

Pronunciation


Note:
  • ho3 - river;
  • ho3* - “Milky Way”.

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. Yellow River, Huang He (a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions)
    Synonym: 黃河 / 黄河 (Huáng Hé)
       nán   Henan (literally, “south of the Yellow River”)
       nèi   Henei (literally, “inner of the Yellow River”)
          the god of the Yellow River
          Yellow River's Map; the plan of the Yellow River (mystic diagram said to have been supernaturally revealed)
  2. (by extension) river, especially a smaller river. See usage note. (Classifier: m c;  m)
       liú   river
       xiǎo    small river, stream
  3. (obsolete) streamside; riverside
  4. (literary, figurative) Milky Way
    星系   héwàixīngxì   extragalactic galaxy
  5. (chiefly Cantonese) short for 河粉 (héfěn)
    乾炒牛干炒牛 [Cantonese]   gon1 caau2 ngau4 ho4-2 [Jyutping]   beef chow fun
  6. a surname, He or Ho

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

  • Wutunhua: xhe

References

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Japanese

Kanji

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. river

Readings

  • Go-on: (ga)
  • Kan-on: (ka, Jōyō)
  • Kun: かわ (kawa, , Jōyō)かは (kafa, , historical)
  • Nanori: (ko)こう ()

Compounds

Etymology 1

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
かわ1
[noun] river, stream, brook
Alternative spelling
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

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From Middle Chinese (MC ha).

Affix

() (ka) 

  1. river

Etymology 3

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From Chinese (). The pronunciation is most similar to Cantonese /hɔː²¹/, although most Japanese mahjong terminology is taken from early 20th Century Mandarin.

Noun

(ホー) or (ホウ) () 

  1. (mahjong) river: a player's discard pile

References

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC ha).

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

(eumhun (mul ha))

  1. hanja form? of (river)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.
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