河: river

河 hé

noun
: river

Kun Reading

河 | かわ kawa

noun
: river; stream
: (Suffix) the …. river; (suffix used with the names of rivers)

河 | がわ gawa

suffix
: the …. river; (suffix used with the names of rivers)

河流 he2liu2: river

河川 he2chuan1: rivers [かせん kasen]

河口 he2kou3: estuary; the mouth of a river [かこう kakou]

河堤 he2di1: riverwall

河童 he2tong2: Kappa, a child-size humanoid water creature in Japanese folklore
[かっぱ kappa: kappa (mythical water-dwelling creatures)
: excellent swimmer
: cucumber
: (Abbreviation) rolled sushi containing a stick of cucumber]

河馬[马] he2ma3: hippopotamus [かば kaba]

河豚 he2tun2: blowfish (Tetraodontidae); puffer fish
[ふぐ fugu: puffer fish; blow fish; fugu; globefish; swellfish]

河道 he2dao4: river course; river channel

山河 shan1he2: mountains and rivers; the whole country
[さんが sanga: mountains and rivers; natural surroundings]

運[运]河 yun4he2: canal [運河 | うんが unga: canal; waterway]

銀河系 [银河系] yin2 he2 xi4: Milky Way Galaxy; the galaxy (our galaxy)
[ぎんがけい gingakei: galaxy; galactic system]

河漢 | かかん kakan OR 天の河 | あまのがわ amanogawa OR あまのかわ amanokawa: Milky Way

Japanese expression | proverb
河岸を変える | かしをかえる kashi o kaeru
: to try a new venue for eating, drinking, night amusement, etc.

河童の川流れ | かっぱのかわながれ kappa no kawa nagare
: anyone can make a mistake; even Homer sometimes nods

*二河白道 | にがびゃくどう niga byakudō
: The two rivers and the white path, i.e. the path leading to life between the rivers of desire and hatred, which are compared to water and fire

百年河清 | ひゃくねんかせい hyakunen kasei
: waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event. When pigs fly. When the sky falls, we shall catch larks

河豚は食いたし命は惜しし | ふぐはくいたしいのちはおしし fugu wa kuitashii nochi wa oshishi
: honey is sweet, but the bee stings. I would like to taste fugu, but I value my life; hesitating from doing something because of fear of consequences

陸に上がった河童 | おかにあがったかっぱ oka ni agatta kappa
: a fish out of water; a kappa up on the land

Chinese idiom
*二河白道 er4 he2 bai2 dao4
: (Buddhist term) metaphor in which the road to paradise is likened to a white road between two rivers, one of water (wrath) and one of fire (greed)

江河湖海 jiang1 he2 hu2 hai3: rivers and lakes

江河日下 jiang1 he2 ri4 xia4: rivers pour away by the day; going from bad to worse; deteriorating day by day

井水不犯河水 jing3 shui3 bu4 fan4 he2 shui3
: lit. the well water doesn’t meddle with the river water. fig. everyone minds their own business

摸著石頭過河 [摸着石头过河] mo1 zhe5 shi2 tou5 guo4 he2
: to wade the river by groping for stones; to advance step by step; to feel one’s way around

不到黃河心不死 [不到黄河心不死] bu4 dao4 huang2 he2 xin1 bu4 si3
: lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River; fig. to persevere until one reaches one’s goal; to keep going while some hope is left

牽馬到河易，強馬飲水難 [牵马到河易，强马饮水难] qian1 ma3 dao4 he2 yi4 , qiang2 ma3 yin3 shui3 nan2
: You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink