悬河 懸河

悬河懸河 in English

xuán hé
"hanging" river (an embanked one whose riverbed is higher than the surrounding floodplain) / (literary) waterfall / cataract / (fig.) torrent of words

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 河 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 河 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 懸, the traditional character: 悬 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Clerical script: 懸 Clerical script 曹魏

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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