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What is the difference between 河 and 江 and 溪 and 川 ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between 河 and 江 and 溪 and 川 ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
@whitewolf: 江 & 河 應是同義詞
溪 則指山間的小河流(小溪)
川 則比較常用在河流的名字 or 成語(川流不息)
- Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
- Simplified Chinese (China) Near fluent
川：泛指所有的溪水、河流
溪：通常指山間的小河流
河與江是一樣的，都是指流水，河是以前中國北方用法，如：黃河、江是以前中國南方用法，如：長江。現在江、河、川、溪都有用在河川的命名，沒有分這麼細了
- Indonesian
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- Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
大致可用大小理解：江>河>溪。
至於川這三撇其實是象形文字（用圖案表示的字體），文字左右是岸， 中間是流水。所以水道都可叫做川，但通常川代表河居多。
不過河、江、川、溪可以混用，不同文化或不同地區會有不同選字偏好。
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