IDENTITY
河hériver
HSK 3Top 900
CORE MEANING
river
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.riverHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 氵water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰氵可
- water radical
- gives the sound hé
USAGE
Common words
黄河Huáng Héthe Yellow River
河边hébiānriverside
河水héshuǐriver water
Graded examples
我们常在河边散步。Wǒmen cháng zài hébiān sànbù.HSK3
We often take walks by the river.
RELATIONS
LEARNING
Memory aid
Water (氵) you can (可) follow — a river.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #900
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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