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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
river / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
Tigris River, Iraq
extragalactic nebula
thawing and opening up of frozen river in spring
Heilongjiang River / Amur River (the border between northeast China and Russia)
Amazon River
Qiezihe, a district of Qitaihe City 七臺河市|七台河市, Heilongjiang
Loire River, France
Volga River
a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe)
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
the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb) / change is the only constant
Beidaihe, a district of Qinhuangdao City 秦皇島市|秦皇岛市, Hebei
large river (esp the Yellow River)
source of Changjiang or Yangtze river
Shahe, a county-level city in Xingtai City 邢臺市|邢台市, Hebei
Danube
Po River, longest river in Italy
mussels / bivalves grown in rivers and lakes
river bank
rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) / rhesus monkey / lit. river Ganges monkey of north India
the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC
Ganges River
Qitaihe, prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省|黑龙江省
riverside / river bank
riverside / river plain
HSK 7-9
Panama Canal
the Great Bend of the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia
river bend
canal
HSK 7-9
river valley
Xihe district of Fuxin city 阜新市, Liaoning
(saying) everyone minds their own business
Mesopotamian civilization
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
Hebei Daily, newspaper founded in 1949
rivers pour away by the day (idiom); going from bad to worse / deteriorating day by day
riverbed
River Thames
Heyuan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省
rivers
lit. the lioness from Hedong roars (idiom) / fig. refers to a shrewish wife or a henpecked husband
hippopotamus
Tarim River of Xinjiang
Sanhe, a county-level city in Langfang City 廊坊市, Hebei
to drown oneself by jumping into the river
glacier
Linghe, a district of Jinzhou City 錦州市|锦州市, Liaoning
Indus River
surface of a river
blowfish; puffer (Tetraodontidae)
Seine
to jump into a river to drown oneself
lit. crossing the river by feeling for stones / improvise by trial-and-error / move cautiously
Hanoi, capital of Vietnam
Henan Province, capital Zhengzhou 鄭州市|郑州市 (abbr. to )
Mekong River
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
lit. to destroy the bridge after crossing the river (idiom) / fig. to abandon one's benefactor upon achieving one's goal
Xiao River in Hebei
lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom) / fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal / to keep going while some hope is left
Euphrates River
underground river
Yangtze and Yellow rivers
river
lit. river water does not interfere with well water (idiom); Do not interfere with one another. / Mind your own business.
Meihekou, a county-level city in Tonghua City 通化市, Jilin
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
Donghe, a district of Baotou City 包頭市|包头市, Inner Mongolia
rivers, lakes and oceans / bodies of water
Fen River
river mouth
Jordan River (in southwestern Asia)
Qilihe, a district of Lanzhou City 蘭州市|兰州市, Gansu
to speak without thinking (idiom) / to blurt sth out
countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges (idiom)
Hekou Yaozu Autonomous County in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture 紅河哈尼族彝族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州, Yunnan
Huai River, main river of east China, between the Yellow River 黃河|黄河 and the Changjiang 長江|长江
ice age
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)

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