Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

181 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 3

Meaning: stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)

Kunyomi: かわ

Onyomi: セン

Radical

Radical:

Reading: さんぼんがわ

Meaning: river

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

(かせん)   rivers

(かわ)   river

上(かわかみ)   upper reaches of a river

下(かわしも)   downstream

江戸(えどがわ)   Edo River

(おがわ)   small stream, brook

Onyomi Examples

センリュウ senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem

きゅう センキュウ cnidium rhizome (Cnidium officinale)

サンセン mountains and rivers

シセン Sichuan (China), Szechuan, Szechwan

Kunyomi Examples

かわ river, stream, River, the ... river

かわかみ upper reaches of a river, upstream

ほりかわ canal

さんせん mountains and rivers