Kanji 河 Words: Meanings and Readings, Page 2

form of bondage torture in which the victim is hung from the ceiling with their hands and legs bound behind them and a rock placed on their back (Edo period)

小人河馬

こびとかば

pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)

小紋河豚

こもんふぐ

finepatterned puffer (Takifugu poecilonotus)

沼河姫命

ぬなかわひめのみこと

Nukakawahime no Mikoto (deity)

真河豚

まふぐ

purple puffer (Takifugu porphyreus)

星河

せいが

Milky Way

星河豚

ほしふぐ

starry toado (pufferfish, Arothron firmamentum)

青河原鶸

あおかわらひわ

European greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)

赤目河豚

あかめふぐ

red-eyed puffer (Takifugu chrysops)

川鵜

かわう

great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

川舟

かわぶね

riverboat

川鼠

かわねずみ

Japanese water shrew (Chimarrogale platycephala)

川竹

かわたけ

Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)

川明かり

かわあかり

glow of a river in the darkness

川獺

かわうそ

Japanese river otter (Lutra lutra whiteleyi)

川蜻蛉

かわとんぼ

broad-winged damselfly (of family Calopterygidae)

遡河魚

そかぎょ

anadromous fish (fish that migrates upstream, e.g. salmon)

草河豚

くさふぐ

grass puffer (Takifugu niphobles)

楕円銀河

だえんぎんが

elliptical galaxy

大河ドラマ

たいがドラマ

large-scale, long-running TV series (esp. of period pieces produced by NHK)

大河小説

たいがしょうせつ

roman-fleuve

谷氷河

たにひょうが

valley glacier

淡水河豚

たんすいふぐ

freshwater puffer fish

中小河川

ちゅうしょうかせん

small and medium-sized rivers

潮前河豚

しょうさいふぐ

Takifugu snyderi (species of pufferfish)

超銀河集団

ちょうぎんがしゅうだん

supercluster of galaxies

超銀河団

ちょうぎんがだん

supercluster of galaxies

追河

おいかわ

pale chub (Zacco platypus)

天の川銀河

あまのがわぎんが

Milky Way galaxy

天河

てんが

the Milky Way

電波銀河

でんぱぎんが

radio galaxy

渡河

とか

crossing a river

二河白道

にがびゃくどう

the road to paradise is a white road between two rivers, one of water (wrath) and one of fire (greed)

白河夜船

しらかわよふね

being fast asleep (and totally unaware of what is going on around one)

箱河豚

はこふぐ

bluespotted boxfish (Ostracion immaculatus)

彼岸河豚

ひがんふぐ

panther puffer (Takifugu pardalis)

皮田

かわた

lowly people (Edo period)

百年河清

ひゃくねんかせい

waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear

氷河学

ひょうががく

glaciology

氷河期

ひょうがき

tough period

氷河湖

ひょうがこ

glacial lake

氷河湖決壊洪水

ひょうがこけっかいこうずい

glacial lake outburst flood

氷河擦痕

ひょうがさっこん

glacial striae

氷河時代

ひょうがじだい

ice age

不規則銀河

ふきそくぎんが

irregular galaxy

暴虎馮河

ぼうこひょうが

foolhardy courage

棒渦巻銀河

ぼううずまきぎんが

barred spiral galaxy

夕河岸

ゆうがし

evening fish market

揚子江河海豚

ようすこうかわいるか

baiji (Lipotes vexillifer)

梨河豚

なしふぐ

pear puffer (Takifugu vermicularis)

陸に上がった河童

おかにあがったかっぱ

a fish out of water