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河
Mandarin · pinyin hé
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- 河
- hé · river; stream; the Yellow River
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2 · he2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ho4
Cantonese word readings for 河. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- Yellow River, Huang He (a major river in northern China, passing through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces as well as Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regions)
- (by extension) river, especially a smaller river. See usage note. (Classifier: 條／条 m c; 道 m)
- (obsolete) streamside; riverside
- (literary, figurative) Milky Way
- (chiefly Cantonese) short for 河粉 (héfěn)
- a surname, He and Ho
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