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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
Tigris River, Iraq
Heilongjiang River / Amur River (the border between northeast China and Russia)
Amazon River
Loire River, France
Volga River
Nyeva or Neva River (through St Petersburg)
Amazon River
the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC
Ili River in central Asia
mouth like a torrent (idiom) / eloquent / glib / voluble / have the gift of the gab
large river (esp the Yellow River)
source of Changjiang or Yangtze river
Danube
Po River, longest river in Italy
the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC
Ganges River
Panama Canal
canal
HSK 7-9
to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom) / to advance cautiously, step by step / to feel one's way forward
Yitong River in Siping 四平, Jilin
Mississippi River
River Thames
Tarim River of Xinjiang
to drown oneself by jumping into the river
glacier
Indus River
Seine
to jump into a river to drown oneself
lit. crossing the river by feeling for stones / improvise by trial-and-error / move cautiously
Mekong River
Xiao River in Hebei
Euphrates River
underground river
Yangtze and Yellow rivers
river
Hai He (a system of five waterways around Tianjin, flowing into Bohai 渤海 at Dagukou 大沽口)
moat (surrounding the city wall)
Aksu River in Xinjiang
Fen River
Jordan River (in southwestern Asia)
to speak without thinking (idiom) / to blurt sth out
Huai River, main river of east China, between the Yellow River 黃河|黄河 and the Changjiang 長江|长江
Ebro River (in northeast Spain)
river that flows only within a country's borders; inland waterway (esp. for transportation, in contrast to coastal or maritime waters)
Nanjiao River (Shandong province, flows into Qingdao harbor)
creek; stream; brook
tug-of-war / to take part in a tug-of-war
source; precursor; forerunner
canal / man-made waterway
Liao River of northeast China, passing through Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Jilin and Liaoning
Dadu River in Sichuan
"hanging" river (an embanked one whose riverbed is higher than the surrounding floodplain) / (literary) waterfall / cataract / (fig.) torrent of words
lifeline river; river regarded as the cradle of a civilization
Meigu River in south Sichuan
St Lawrence River, Canada
Sittang River of central Myanmar (Burma), between Irrawaddy and Salween rivers
Habahe county or Qaba nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区, Xinjiang
Neckar River in Germany
Yellow River or Huang He
inland river / river draining to inland sea
Congo River
Rhine River
the river of love / a stumbling block on the path to enlightenment (Buddhism)
Jing Nahiyisi or Jinghe county in Börtala Mongol autonomous prefecture 博爾塔拉蒙古自治州|博尔塔拉蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Hudson River, New York State, USA
name of several rivers / North Luo river, tributary of Wei river 渭河 in Shaanxi
pelican
Delaware River, between Pennsylvania and Delaware state, USA
Rhone, river of Switzerland and France
Yarkant River in Xinjiang
Potomac River
Chan River in Henan province 河南
Rhone River, France
Milky Way
Qizilsu or Kizilsu River in Xinjiang
the areas to the north and south of the Yellow River (in the Spring and Autumn Period) / Mesopotamia
the Nile (river in northeastern Africa)
Chao Phraya River, the main river of Thailand
Wei River in Shaanxi through the Guanzhong Plain 關中平原|关中平原
Suez Canal

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