川

川 (radical 47, 巛+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 中中中 (LLL), four-corner 2200₀, composition ⿰丿〢)

• 𠆯, 𠯀, 圳, 汌, 𦘶, 杊, 𤆑, 㸪, 玔, 甽, 𥃹, 𥐣, 紃(𬘓), 𧈶, 𡔠, 訓(训), 𮙰, 䡅, 𫶨, 𪩢, 釧(钏), 馴(驯), 𩵙, 𩾧, 𦤸, 順(顺), 𡵅, 𡿫, 𪯠, 𣅕, 氚, 𫇨, 𤽃, 𥫨, 𥄊, 𥬂, 𪡢, 𩭁, 𨤅

• つ (Hiragana character derived from Man'yōgana)
• ツ (Katakana character derived from Man'yōgana)

• KangXi: page 323, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8673
• Dae Jaweon: page 624, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 32, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5DDD

Historical forms of the character 川
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – compare 水 (OC *qʰʷljilʔ).

The Middle and Old Chinese reconstruction of this word is phonologically problematic (STEDT):

• Karlgren (1957) notes that the Middle Chinese form is irregular based on evidence from Shijing rimes.
• Based on velar contacts in the same phonetic series, e.g. 巛, 甽 and 訓, Baxter (1992) and Schuessler (2007) reconstruct the word with a velar initial (Handel, 1998; Sagart, 1999), which undergoes irregular palatalization in the development to Middle Chinese (Baxter, 1992).
• Based on other characters in the same phonetic series, e.g. 順 and 馴, Sagart (1999), and later, Baxter and Sagart (2014), reconstructs 川 with a lateral initial and suggests that only a *t- prefix would account for the Middle Chinese initial /t͡ɕʰ/.

Schuessler (2007) relates this word to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (“river; valley”), whence 江 (OC *kroːŋ, “river”), 谷 (OC *kloːɡ, “valley”), Tibetan ཀླུང (klung, “river”), Burmese ချောင်း (hkyaung:, “stream”). STEDT notes that this does not account for the *-n coda.

STEDT instead compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ *m-ti-s (“water; fluid; liquid; river; soak; spit”), whence 涕 (OC *tʰiːlʔ, “tears”), Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuj (“water; fluid; liquid”), Chepang तीः (“water; rain; river”); this depends on a reconstruction with a dental initial and requires positing an *‑n suffix not present in Tibeto-Burman languages.

川

1. river; stream; brook
2. Synonym of 汆 (cuān, “to boil food for a short time in boiled water”).
3. Short for 四川 (Sìchuān, “Sichuan Province, China”).
4. source (of a river)
5. road
6. plain
7. Alternative form of 穿 (chuān).
8. A surname​.

• 河 (hé)
• 江 (jiāng)
• 溪 (xī)

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. river

• Go-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: せん (sen, Jōyō)
• Kun: かわ (kawa, 川, Jōyō)^{←かは (kafa, historical)}
• Nanori: か (ka); こ (ko); さわ (sawa)

From Old Japanese kapa[1] from Proto-Japonic *kapa[2]

• (Tokyo) かわ​ [kàwáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[3]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ɰᵝa̠]
• (Kagoshima) IPA^(key): [ko̞ː]

川 (hiragana かわ, rōmaji kawa, historical hiragana かは)

1. river, stream, brook

• 河 (か)川 (せん) (kasen)

• 河

川 (hiragana かわ, rōmaji -kawa, historical hiragana かは)

1. the ... river, used in named of rivers or streams

川 (hiragana がわ, rōmaji -gawa, historical hiragana がは)

1. the ... river

川 (eumhun 내 천 (nae cheon))

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川 (xuyên)

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