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川

川 is a Japanese kanji written with 3 strokes, listed here under the keyword “stream”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 134. It appears as a component in 7 other characters in this index.

Keyword
stream
RTK frame
134
Strokes
3
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
セン
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
かわ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
поток, flood, river
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
川 stream

Decomposition

No decomposition is listed: this shape is used whole.

Characters that contain 川

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