川
chuān
Pinyin

Definition

川
 - 
chuān
  1. river
  2. creek
  3. plain
  4. an area of level country
川
 - 
Chuān
  1. abbr. for Sichuan Province 四川[Sì chuān] in southwest China

Character Decomposition

Compounds (27)

巡
xún
  1. 1 to patrol
  2. 2 to make one's rounds
  3. 3 classifier for rounds of drinks
巡
xún
  1. 1 variant: 巡 xún
巢
Cháo
  1. 1 surname Chao
巢
cháo
  1. 1 nest
剿
chāo
  1. 1 to plagiarize

Related Words (20)

四川
Sì chuān
  1. 1 Sichuan province (Szechuan) in southwest China, abbr. 川 or 蜀, capital Chengdu 成都
川
Chuān
  1. 1 abbr. for Sichuan Province 四川[Sì chuān] in southwest China
一马平川
yī mǎ píng chuān
  1. 1 flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom); wide expanse of flat country
仁川
Rén chuān
  1. 1 Incheon Metropolitan City in Gyeonggi Province 京畿道[Jīng jī dào], South Korea
冰川
bīng chuān
  1. 1 glacier

Idioms (4)

一马平川
yī mǎ píng chuān
  1. 1 flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom); wide expanse of flat country
川流不息
chuān liú bù xī
  1. 1 the stream flows without stopping (idiom); unending flow
海纳百川
hǎi nà bǎi chuān
  1. 1 all rivers run into the sea
  2. 2 use different means to obtain the same result (idiom)
百川归海
bǎi chuān guī hǎi
  1. 1 all things tend in one direction (idiom)

Sample Sentences

我们老家的四川火锅蘸酱，我妹的目标是向“老干妈”看齐，但上市那得靠缘分了，如果无缘，至少也要营销成蘸酱界第一个“老干妹儿”。
wǒmen lǎojiā de Sìchuān huǒguō zhànjiàng ，wǒ mèi de mùbiāo shì xiàng “lǎogānmā ”kànqí ，dàn shàngshì nà děi kào yuánfèn le ，rúguǒ wúyuán ，zhìshǎo yě yào yíngxiāo chéng zhànjiàng jiè dì yī ge “lǎogānmèir ”。
For the Sichuanese hotpot dipping sauce from our hometown. My cousin's objective is to emulate Laoganma dipping sauce, but hitting the market is all up to chance, if there's no opportunity for that, at least she wants to market it as the first little sister of the laoganma dipping sauce brand.
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是吗？我早就想到四川旅游了！你们那儿一定有很多傻憨的熊猫吧？前阵子二十几只熊猫亮相的影片你看过了吗？
shìma ？wǒ zǎo jiù xiǎngdào Sìchuān lǚyóu le ！nǐmen nàr yīdìng yǒu hěn duō shǎhān de xióngmāo ba ？qiánzhènzi èrshí jǐ zhī xióngmāo liàngxiàng de yǐngpiàn nǐ kàn guò le ma ？
Really? I've wanted to go traveling to Sichuan for ages! You must have so many dumb pandas where you live, yeah? Did you see that film that recently came out of over 20 pandas?
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我是四川人，就是川菜的四川。
wǒ shì Sìchuān rén ，jiùshì Chuāncài de Sìchuān 。
I'm from Sichuan, where all the good Sichuanese food comes from.
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我是真的很想去四川看看，听说川妹子个个傻白甜，又烧得一手好菜。是理想人妻呢！
wǒ shì zhēnde hěn xiǎngqù Sìchuān kàn kan ，tīngshuō chuānmèizi gègè shǎ bái tián ，yòu shāo de yī shǒu hǎocài 。shì lǐxiǎng rénqī ne ！
I do really want to go and see Sichuan. I hear Sichuan girls are all young, pretty and naive, as well as being able to cook good food. They really make ideal wives!
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对对对！咱们天府之国盛产美女，除此之外，在四川，光是路过一家餐馆都能把你给呛着，这可不是开玩笑。
duìduìduì ！zánmen tiānfǔ zhī guó chéngchǎn měinǚ ，chúcǐzhīwài ，zài Sìchuān ，guāngshì lùguò yī jiā cānguǎn dōu néng bǎ nǐ gěi qiàngzháo ，zhè kě bùshì kāi wánxiào 。
Yes, yes! Our land of plenty is rich in pretty women. Also, in Sichuan, just walking past a restaurant you'll get choked up. And that's no joke.
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听说川妹子和川菜一样辣到骨子里，我最擅长以柔克刚，四川美女就交给我吧！
tīngshuō chuānmèizi hé Chuāncài yīyàng là dào gǔzilǐ ，wǒ zuì shàncháng yǐróukègāng ，Sìchuān měinǚ jiù jiāo gěi wǒ ba ！
I hear Sichuanese girls are spicy to their core, just like the food. I'm really quite skilled at conquering tough women with softness. You should leave the pretty Sichuanese girls to me!
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咳咳！四川气候温润，我们巴蜀女子确是皮肤白皙又甜美，个个像花一样，但是并不傻，岂能插在你们这些牛粪上！
hài hài ！Sìchuān qìhòu wēnrùn ，wǒmen bāshǔ nǚzǐ què shì pífū báixī yòu tiánměi ，gègè xiàng huā yīyàng ，dànshì bìngbù shǎ ，qǐnéng chā zài nǐmen zhèxiē niúfèn shàng ！
Ha ha! Sichuan has a humid climate. Our Sichuan women really have milky white skin, each one of them like flowers, but they're not naive, so I don't think they'd take if you shove them in a cow pie like you!
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眼珠子滴溜一转）是啊是啊，我妈妈湖南的，我们老家是湖南邵阳的，后来去了四川，早几年来这儿打工了，现在湖南这边过来打工的人可多了，要是没个熟人领路，还真不好找个称心的事情做。
yǎnzhūzǐ dīliū yī zhuǎn ）shì a shì a ，wǒ māma Húnán de ，wǒmen lǎojiā shì Húnán Shàoyáng de ，hòulái qù le Sìchuān ，zǎo jǐniánlái zhèr dǎgōng le ，xiànzài Húnán zhèbiān guòlai dǎgōng de rén kě duō le ，yàoshì méi gè shúrén lǐnglù ，hái zhēn bù hǎo zhǎo gè chèngxīn de shìqing zuò 。
(Looks around him calculatingly) Yes, yes, my mum is from Hunan. Our ancestral home is in Shaoyang in Hunan, but later we moved to Sichuan. I came here to get work several years ago. Now lots of people come here from Hunan to get work. Unless they know someone to show them the ropes, it's really hard to find good work.
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欸，不错，其中最有分量的就是第三十一届江户川乱步奖，这是日本国内给予悬疑侦探小说家的最高荣誉。
ǎi ，bùcuò ，qízhōng zuì yǒu fènliang de jiùshì dì sānshíyī jiè jiānghù chuānluànbù jiǎng ，zhè shì Rìběn guónèi jǐyǔ xuányí zhēntàn xiǎoshuōjiā de zuì gāo róngyù 。
Ah, great, the biggest of those was the thirty first Edogawa Rampo Award, the highest award for thriller crime novels within Japan.
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我觉得思路很不错啊，在我看来，我会先将“川、鲁、苏、粤、浙、闽、湘、徽”这八大菜系逐一介绍。
wǒ juéde sīlù hěn bùcuò ā ，zàiwǒkànlai ，wǒ huì xiān jiāng “chuān 、Lǔ 、sū 、yuè 、zhè 、mǐn 、xiāng 、huī ”zhè bā dà càixì zhúyī jièshào 。
I think this way of conceiving it is good. In my view, I will first introduce the eight major cuisines, Sichuanese cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Hunan cuisine and Anhui cuisine.
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