Noun
bamboo growing along a river bank
Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides); giant timber bamboo; madake
Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
prostitute; the life of a prostitute
Archaic
Also written 河竹【かわたけ】
Characters in this word
2川
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
stream, river, river or three-stroke river radical (no. 47)
- Kun
- かわ
- On
- セン
- Strokes
- 3
- Taught
- Grade 1
- JLPT
- N5
- Frequency
- 181 of 2500
- Radical
- 巛 river
- WaniKani
- Level 1
Built from
Used in names as
か、こ、さわ
Dictionary and index codes (34)
| Code | Reference |
|---|---|
| 1-1-2 | SKIP code |
| 0a3.2 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2200.0 | Four corner code |
| 1254 | deroo |
| 5ddd | Unicode hex code |
| 1-32-78 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 1447 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1526 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 6 | New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 6 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 127 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 134 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 111 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 20 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 41 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 8673 | Morohashi |
| 48 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 33 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 33 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 39 | sakade |
| 49 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 59 | henshall3 |
| 21 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 196 | crowley |
| 101 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 2.10 | busy_people |
| 548 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 129 | Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette) |
| chuan1 | Pinyin reading |
| cheon | Korean reading |
| n5 | JLPT level (KANJIDIC2) |
| 1 | WaniKani level |
竹
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
Dictionary and index codes (32)
| Code | Reference |
|---|---|
| 1-3-3 | SKIP code |
| 6f0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 8822.0 | Four corner code |
| 2353 | deroo |
| 7af9 | Unicode hex code |
| 1-35-61 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 3366 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 4246 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 228 | New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 267 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 168 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 201 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 937 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1007 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 719 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 247 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 68 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 25841 | Morohashi |
| 170 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 129 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 129 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 113 | sakade |
| 790 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 71 | henshall3 |
| 59 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 374 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1471 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 946 | Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette) |
| zhu2 | Pinyin reading |
| jug | Korean reading |
| n2 | JLPT level (KANJIDIC2) |
| 4 | WaniKani level |