rivers and canals / waterway
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
river port
brook / ditch
floodplain
river bank / river shore / strand
(bird species of China) white-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
beaver
river blindness / onchocerciasis
river god
hor fun, a type of wide, flat rice noodle
mussels / bivalves grown in rivers and lakes
river crab / Internet censorship (pun on "harmonious" 和諧|和谐[], which is blocked by the great firewall of China)
tetrodotoxin (TTX)
river transport
surface of a river
freshwater fish
freshwater fish, shrimp, crabs and clams etc
the river flows thirty years to the East, thirty years to the West (proverb) / change is the only constant
lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom) / fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal / to keep going while some hope is left
(saying) everyone minds their own business
canal / man-made waterway
source / precursor / forerunner
river that flows only within a country's borders / inland waterway (esp. for transportation, in contrast to coastal or maritime waters)
inward flowing river / river flowing into desert or salt lake, e.g. Tarim river 塔里木河
inland river / river draining to inland sea
ice age
ice age
ice age
see 半壁江山[]
mouth like a torrent (idiom) / eloquent / glib / voluble / have the gift of the gab
to fall in love
freezing over of river in winter
a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe)
irrigation channel
"hanging" river (an embanked one whose riverbed is higher than the surrounding floodplain) / (literary) waterfall / cataract / (fig.) torrent of words
to jump into a river to drown oneself
to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom) / to advance cautiously, step by step / to feel one's way forward
a dam across a river
underground river
lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom) / fig. to display foolhardy courage
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27