Kana: かわ

river

Example sentence

川で魚を見ました。

かわでさかなをみました。

I saw fish in the river.

What 川 means

(かわ) is a Japanese word meaning “river”. It belongs to the Places & Travel topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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