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  *水* | 水* | *水
water / (after a name) ... River / to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水 and 水性) / (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy / (bound form) additional cost; extra income / classifier for washings of a garment
HSK 1
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  *床* | 床* | *床
bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:張|张) / bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc) / frame; chassis / classifier for blankets, quilts etc
HSK 1
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  *条* | 条* | *条
strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
HSK 2
south; southern direction / (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River
HSK 2
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  *套* | 套* | *套
to cover / to encase / cover / sheath / to overlap / to interleave / to model after / to copy / formula / harness / loop of rope / (fig.) to fish for / to obtain slyly / classifier for sets, collections / bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names) / tau (Greek letter Ττ)
HSK 2
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  *道* | 道* | *道
road; path (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)
HSK 2
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  *河* | 河* | *河
river (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) the Yellow River / (bound form) the Milky Way / (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉
HSK 2
north / the northern part a country / China north of the Yellow River
HSK 2
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  *派* | 派* | *派
(literary) tributary; branch of a river / clique; school; group; faction / (bound form) style; manner / to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task); to appoint (sb) / classifier for factions, groups etc / (preceded by ) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc / (loanword) pi (Greek letter Ππ); the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159... / (loanword) pie
HSK 3
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  *汇* | 汇* | *汇
to remit / to converge (of rivers) / to exchange
HSK 4
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  *治* | 治* | *治
to rule / to govern / to manage / to control / to harness (a river) / to treat (a disease) / to wipe out (a pest) / to punish / to research
HSK 4
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  *投* | 投* | *投
to throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc) / to cast (a ballot) / to cast (a glance, a shadow etc) / to put in (money for investment, a coin to operate a slot machine) / to send (a letter, a manuscript etc) / to throw oneself into (a river, a well etc to commit suicide) / to go to; to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of / (coll.) to rinse (clothes) in water
HSK 4
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  *江* | 江* | *江
river / CL: 條|条,
HSK 4
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  *涨* | 涨* | *涨
to rise (of prices, rivers)
HSK 5
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  *横* | 横* | *横
horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent
HSK 6
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  *股* | 股* | *股
thigh / part of a whole; portion of a sum / (finance) stock; share / strand of a thread / low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below / classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc / classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff / classifier for bands of people, gangs etc / classifier for sudden forceful actions
HSK 6
main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc)
HSK 6
water source / water supply / headwaters of a river
HSK 7-9
branch (of company, river etc) / to branch / to diverge / to ramify / to subdivide
HSK 7-9
lower reaches (of a river) / lower level / lower echelon / downstream
HSK 7-9
riverside / river plain
HSK 7-9
river / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
upper reaches (of a river) / upper level / upper echelon / upstream
HSK 7-9
river basin / valley / drainage area
HSK 7-9
continuous / unbroken / uninterrupted / extending forever into the distance (of mountain range, river etc)
HSK 7-9
cross a river in the same boat (idiom); fig. having common interests / obliged to collaborate towards common goals
HSK 7-9
to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc) / turbulent
HSK 7-9
mountains and rivers / landscape
HSK 7-9
see 黑龍江省|黑龙江省 / Heilong River or Amur River, forming the border between northeast China and Russia
the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong / Humen Town 虎門鎮|虎门镇
Fuchun River in Zhejiang
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  *津* | 津* | *津
saliva / sweat / a ferry crossing / a ford (river crossing)
mountains and rivers / the whole country
rivers and lakes / all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde / (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
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  *赣* | 赣* | *赣
abbr. for Jiangxi Province 江西省 / Gan River in Jiangxi Province 江西省
Dongjiang River
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  *浦* | 浦* | *浦
river bank / shore / river drainage ditch (old)
Jinsha River, the upper course of the Yangtze River 長江|长江 in southwestern China
water from a mountain / mountains and rivers / scenery / landscape
to flow together / confluence (of rivers, airflow, roads) / (international) cooperation
(of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom
Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei
(of a naval vessel) to cruise / to patrol / (of ducks, boats etc) to move about on a lake or river etc
Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer)
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  *渭* | 渭* | *渭
the Wei River in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong Plain 關中平原|关中平原
the Times (newspaper) / River Thames, through London
along the bank of a river; riverside
river water
to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc) / to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
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  *洛* | 洛* | *洛
surname Luo / old name of several rivers (in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Anhui)
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  *濉* | 濉* | *濉
name of a river
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  *泷* | 泷* | *泷
Shuang river in Hunan and Guangdong (modern Wu river 武水)
West China (region in the upper reaches of Yangtze River and Sichuan Province)
river / stream
edge of the water / shore or sea, lake or river / seashore
large river (esp the Yellow River)
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  *洲* | 洲* | *洲
continent / island in a river
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  *沣* | 沣* | *沣
rainy / place name in Shaanxi / Feng River in Shaanxi 陝西|陕西, tributary of Wei River 渭水
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  *滹* | 滹* | *滹
surname Hu / name of a river
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  *渝* | 渝* | *渝
short name for Chongqing 重慶|重庆 / old name of Jialing River 嘉陵江 in Sichuan
Chan River in Henan province 河南
Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang
the Bund, a waterfront promenade in central Shanghai, running along the western bank of the Huangpu River
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  *滨* | 滨* | *滨
(bound form) water's edge; bank; shore / (bound form) to border on (a lake, river etc)
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  *济* | 济* | *济
used in place names associated with the Ji River 濟水|济水 / surname Ji
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  *济* | 济* | *济
to cross a river / to aid or relieve / to be of help
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  *沃* | 沃* | *沃
fertile / rich / to irrigate / to wash (of river)
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  *甬* | 甬* | *甬
Yong River 甬江 in Ningbo 寧波|宁波 / short name for Ningbo
Si River in Shandong
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  *湘* | 湘* | *湘
abbr. for Hunan 湖南 province in south central China / abbr. for Xiangjiang river in Hunan province
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  *淓* | 淓* | *淓
name of a river
Yellow River or Huang He
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  *泗* | 泗* | *泗
river in Shandong
south of Changjiang or Yangtze river / south of the lower reaches of Changjiang / often refers to south Jiangsu, south Anhui and north Zhejiang provinces / a province during Qing times / in literature, refers to the sunny south / Gangnam (district in Seoul, South Korea)
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  *沅* | 沅* | *沅
Yuan river in Guizhou and Hunan
Han River
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  *浐* | 浐* | *浐
name of a river in Shaanxi province / see 滻河|浐河
Pudong, a district of Shanghai to the east of the Huangpu River, full name 浦東新區|浦东新区
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  *洹* | 洹* | *洹
name of a river
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  *岷* | 岷* | *岷
name of a river in Sichuan
to investigate the origin of sth / to trace a river upstream back to its source
river valley
Miluo city in Hunan / Miluo river in Hunan, famous for Dragon Boat festival
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  *浚* | 浚* | *浚
to dredge (a river)
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  *濂* | 濂* | *濂
name of a river in Hunan
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  *垠* | 垠* | *垠
limit / border / river bank
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  *漳* | 漳* | *漳
Zhang river in Fujian
river God
Min River, Fujian
sandy beach or river bank / sand dune / sandy land
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  *菏* | 菏* | *菏
He river in Shandong
upper reaches (of a river) / to go upstream / to add some water / to water (a crop etc)
river tracing / mountain stream climbing (recreational activity)
(of rivers etc) to converge / convergence
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  *汴* | 汴* | *汴
name of a river in Henan / Henan
estuary / coastal inlet / river mouth / seaport / see also 誇海口|夸海口
river source
to cross a river
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  *沱* | 沱* | *沱
tearful / to branch (of river)
estuary / the mouth of a river

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