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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
extragalactic nebula
mussels / bivalves grown in rivers and lakes
river bank
riverside / river bank
riverside / river plain
HSK 7-9
the Great Bend of the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia
river bend
river valley
Hebei Daily, newspaper founded in 1949
riverbed
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
surface of a river
blowfish; puffer (Tetraodontidae)
Hanoi, capital of Vietnam
Henan Province, capital Zhengzhou 鄭州市|郑州市 (abbr. to )
lit. river water does not interfere with well water (idiom); Do not interfere with one another. / Mind your own business.
river mouth
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
estuary / the mouth of a river
Hekou district of Dongying city 東營市|东营市, Shandong
river conservancy works (dike maintenance, dredging etc) / river conservancy worker
river crab / Internet censorship (pun on "harmonious" 和諧|和谐, which is blocked by the great firewall of China)
river bank; river shore; strand
Hebei Province, capital Shijiazhuang 石家莊市|石家庄市 (abbr. to )
Hequ county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
bend (of a river) / meander
Hedong district of Linyi city 臨沂市|临沂市, Shandong
Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road
river course / river channel
extragalactic star system / galaxy (not including our Galaxy)
the Yellow River is clear and the sea is calm / the world is at peace (idiom)
Hebei University of Technology
river island
Hequ county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
river water
Henan Mengguzu Autonomous County in Qinghai / in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州, Qinghai
river transport
Hejian, a county-level city in Cangzhou City 滄州市|沧州市, Hebei
rivers and canals / waterway
shrew / see also 河東獅吼|河东狮吼
brook / rivulet
freshwater fish, shrimp, crabs and clams etc
tributary; branch of a river
Hejin, a county-level city in Yuncheng City 運城市|运城市, Shanxi
middle of the river
Hechi, prefecture-level city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区
Hemudu neolithic archaeological site near Ningbo in Zhejiang, going back to c. 5000 BC
Hedong district of Tianjin municipality 天津市 / Hedong district of Linyi city 臨沂市|临沂市, Shandong
brook / ditch
Altair (star)
hor fun, a type of wide, flat rice noodle
Hexipu, a town in Yongchang County 永昌縣|永昌县, Jinchang 金昌, Gansu
river port
Hexi district of Tianjin municipality 天津市
river god
land west of the Yellow river / Shaanxi, Qinghai and Gansu provinces
Hebei opera
beaver
name or river God associated with Yellow river
Hemudu neolithic archaeological site near Ningbo 長江|长江 in Zhejiang, going back to c. 5000 BC
River Elegy, influential 1988 CCTV documentary series, said to have stimulated the Beijing Spring democracy movement of 1980s
(bird species of China) white-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
floodplain
Henan Mengguzu Autonomous County in Qinghai / in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州, Qinghai
kappa, a child-size humanoid water creature in Japanese folklore
Hebei district of Tianjin municipality 天津市
Hebei University of Science and Technology
river bed / channel
tributary; branch of a river
Hoklo people, southern Chinese people of Taiwan
tetrodotoxin (TTX)
Kawamura (name)
pebble
river blindness / onchocerciasis
variant of 河豚


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