Pinyin: hé

river

Example sentence

河边有很多花。

Hébiān yǒu hěn duō huā.

There are many flowers by the river.

What 河 means

(hé) is a Chinese word meaning “river”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at HSK 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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