Contionary:川

Dan'a'yo

Fact Table
中	HSK/4
日	1
韓	中
SKIP/1/1/2
Radical/47 (巛)
Swadesh	152

Alternative Forms

Hanmun: 천 ; Latin: cen

Pronunciation

(Dan'a'yo) IPA: /t͡ɕen/

Noun

1. river

• Note: 'River' is difficult to achieve consensus on. Koreans use 江 as the default word, though many places have 川 in the name. In Japan, everything is a 川. But in China, 河 is common. Vietnamese has a native word, but 江 is listed as the old spelling. This character was chosen because it is so easy to write, while 江 takes the Japanese meaning of cove/inlet.

Sino-Magyar

Old & New Form

川

Gavgyukk hondzú: Year 1, number 27.

Etymology

• Ma:
• Hon: Middle Chinese /t͡ɕʰiuᴇn/

Pronunciation

(Sino-Magyar) IPA:

• Ma: [joː]
• Hon: [ceːn]

Noun

川 (Cyrillic: јо)

1. river (RWH: folyó - not used in the sense of "river".)