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黄河

黄河 HuángHé

黄河 HuángHé Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 1 English Translations of the word 黄河 HuángHé .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
HuángHé | Huang2 He2
English translation
Yellow River or Huang He

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Traditional form

黃河

Part of speech

Place name / 地名 dì míng Dìmíng
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Etymology of 黄河 HuángHé

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Huáng

Type

pictographic

Explanation

Simplified form of huáng . Pictograph of a person with a person with a large belly, representing someone deformed. Based on the original meaning "physically impaired". Later meaning shifted to "yellow; sallow", a skin color associated with illness.

Positional decomposition

⿱?⿱由八

Number of Strokes

11

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. shuǐ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Phonetic compound

Semantic compound

shuǐ

Positional decomposition

氵可

Number of Strokes

8

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Example sentences using 黄河 HuángHé

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黄河 HuángHé Xiàng Dōng liú .

The Yellow River takes its course to the east.

黄河 HuángHé Decomposition

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黄河 HuángHé Compounds

See all 38 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 黄河 HuángHé in their composition.

  • Huáng
    • guǎng
      • hōng , kuàng , , , , , , kuò , kuàng , , , guǎng , , kuàng , , ,
    • héng , huáng , huáng , huáng , huáng , héng , huáng , huáng , huáng , huáng , gōng , , , , , , , , ,
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Once upon a time, a Little Boy was living in a village near the woods. One day, a Dragon came out of the cave secluded in the middle of the forest and began to relentlessly follow the Little Boy, always breathing on the back of his neck, burning the young boy at his slightest misstep.

The child received refuge in an old Temple where there were no mirrors allowed, and it was forbidden to speak of life before entering the sanctum. Ancient books, hidden rooms with unimaginable treasures and beauty beyond comprehension, became part of the boy’s new life.

Time went by until, one day, the now old young boy accidentally glimpses his own reflection in a pond. The Dragon smiled back.

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