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河

hé

HSK 3.0 · 2HSK 2.0 · 3

Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

hé · ho4 (Jyutping)

  1. river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4])
  2. (bound form) the Yellow River
  3. (bound form) the Milky Way
  4. (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2 fen3]

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

河

Meaning
river; stream; the Yellow River
Radical
氵
Strokes
8
Components
⿰氵可
Cangjie
EMNR
Four-corner
3112.0

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