River radical 川 (chuān): 4 characters

body{font-family:sans-serif;max-width:860px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 20px;color:#1a1a2e}River radical 川 (chuān): 4 characters川 (chuān) is Kangxi radical no. 47, “river”. It also appears as 巛 (chuān). In this form it is written with 3 strokes.As a radical, 川 (chuān) is the part a dictionary files these characters under. Often it hints at the meaning - “river” - but sometimes it is only a shape that the character happened to share.The characters range from 3 to 11 strokes. None of them is in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 0 have a full word page of their own.Good ones to start with: 州 (zhōu) prefecture, 川 (chuān) stream, river, 巡 (xún) to patrol, 巢 (cháo) nest.Characters with this radical3 strokes

川 (chuān) - stream, river

6 strokes

州 (zhōu) - prefecture

巡 (xún) - to patrol

11 strokes

巢 (cháo) - nest

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Radicals and component data: Make Me a Hanzi by Shaunak Kishore (dictionary.txt, derived from Unihan and CJKlib), used under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later. Make Me a Hanzi LGPL v3

Stroke counts: Make Me a Hanzi graphics.txt, derived from the Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai fonts by Arphic Technology, under the Arphic Public License - the same stroke data the animations use. Arphic Public License