"河" meaning in Japanese

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Affix

Forms: [canonical] (ruby: ()), ka [romanization]
Etymology: From Middle Chinese 河 (MC ha). Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|-}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|河}} 河 (MC ha) Head templates: {{ja-pos|affix|か}} 河(か) • (ka)
  1. river Categories (place): Bodies of water, Landforms
    Sense id: en-河-ja-affix-X1qO2PE5 Disambiguation of Bodies of water: 28 39 33 Disambiguation of Landforms: 35 41 24 Categories (other): Japanese affixes
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Character

  1. river Tags: grade-5-kanji, kanji Categories (place): Bodies of water, Landforms
    Sense id: en-河-ja-character-X1qO2PE5 Disambiguation of Bodies of water: 28 39 33 Disambiguation of Landforms: 35 41 24 Categories (other): Grade 5 kanji, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant transliterations Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 0 52 48 Derived forms: 運河 (unga) (ruby: (うん), ()) (english: canal), 河馬: a hippopotamus (kaba) (ruby: (), ()), 銀河: a galaxy (ginga), the Milky Way, 決河: the act of a river breach a dike (kekka), dam due to flood, a river thus overflow, 山河 (sanga) (ruby: (さん), ()) (english: mountain and river), 大河 (taiga) (ruby: (たい), ()) (english: a large river), 渡河 (toka) (ruby: (), ()) (english: the act of ford a river), 氷河 (hyōga) (ruby: (ひょう), ()) (english: a glacier), 河豚 (fugu), 河豚: a fugu (katon), a blowfish, pufferfish

Noun

Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (ホー)), [canonical] (ruby: (ホウ)), [romanization]
Etymology: From Chinese 河 (hé). The pronunciation is most similar to Cantonese /hɔː²¹/, although most Japanese mahjong terminology is taken from early 20th Century Mandarin. Etymology templates: {{der|ja|zh|河}} Chinese 河 (hé) Head templates: {{ja-noun|ホー|ホウ}} 河(ホー) or 河(ホウ) • (hō)
  1. (mahjong) river: a player's discard pile Categories (topical): Mahjong Categories (place): Bodies of water, Landforms
    Sense id: en-河-ja-noun-6bGVNwG4 Disambiguation of Bodies of water: 28 39 33 Disambiguation of Landforms: 35 41 24 Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 0 3 97 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 0 5 95 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 0 12 88 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 0 52 48 Topics: board-games, games, mahjong
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Download JSON data for 河 meaning in Japanese (6.5kB)

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{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "河"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "河",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "wiktionary/179/20240425",
  "msg": "河/Japanese/soft-redirect: missing \"senses\" in data (must have at least one sense, add empty sense with \"no-gloss\" tag if none otherwise available): {\"categories\": [\"Japanese entries with incorrect language header\", \"Japanese lemmas\", \"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks\", \"Japanese nouns\", \"Japanese single-kanji terms\", \"Japanese terms derived from Chinese\", \"Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji\", \"Japanese terms spelled with 河\", \"Japanese terms with multiple readings\", \"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys\", \"Japanese terms written with one Han script character\", \"ja:Bodies of water\", \"ja:Landforms\"], \"lang\": \"Japanese\", \"lang_code\": \"ja\", \"pos\": \"soft-redirect\", \"redirects\": [\"川\"], \"word\": \"河\"}",
  "path": [],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "soft-redirect",
  "title": "河",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.