VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

かわ
hepburn kawa

river

Part of speech · noun

Pattern visualization

river
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Examples

  1. 川で泳ぎました。
    I swam in the river.
  2. 日本の川は短いです。
    Japanese rivers are short.

Collocations

川で泳ぐ (swim in river)川を渡る (cross river)川岸 (kawagishi, riverbank)小川 (ogawa, stream)河 (kawa — alternative kanji)

Mnemonic

川 kawa — "river". Disambiguated from 皮 kawa-skin (batch 7). Kanji visually shows three flowing lines. Alternative 河 kawa is for larger rivers (河川 kasen formal). Japanese rivers are typically short.

Quick check

  1. "Cross a river" — verb?

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