河 in English

Measure word

• 条 tiáo strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc) attested
• 道 dào road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization... attested

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

How it used to be written

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
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Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 上海以前有许多小河浜，其中有肇家浜、洋泾浜，现在都被填了。

  There used to be a lot of small creeks in old time Shanghai, which included Zhaojia Creek and Yangjing Creek, but they're all covered up nowadays.

• 从天上看下来，这条河像一条巨蛇。

  Seen from the sky, the river looked like a huge snake.

• 他的房子在河邊。

  His house is by a river.

• 他试图游过河，但是失败了。

  He failed in his attempt to swim the river.

• 去那个村庄的唯一途径是过河。

  The only access to the village is from the river.

• 在这条河里游泳很危险。

  This river is dangerous to swim in.

• 在这条河里游泳很危险。

  It is dangerous to bathe in this river.

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