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chuān

Main
English Definition	river; creek; plain; an area of level country; abbr. for Sichuan Province 四川 in southwest China
Simplified Script	川
Traditional Script	Same
Pinyin	chuān
Effective Pinyin (After Tone Sandhi)	Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)	ㄔㄨㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping)	cyun¹

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Words With Same Head Word
川菜	chuāncài	Sichuan or Szechuan cuisine
川芎	chuānxiōng	chuanxiong rhizome
川剧	chuānjù	Sichuan opera
川流不息	chuān liú bùxī	the stream flows without stopping (idiom); unending flow
川西	chuānxī	Western Sichuan

Words With Same Tail Word
四川	sìchuān	Sichuan province (Szechuan) in southwest China, abbr. 川 or 蜀, capital Chengdu 成都
冰川	bīngchuān	glacier
银川	yínchuān	Yinchuan city, capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 宁夏回族自治区
周小川	zhōu xiǎochuān	Zhou Xiaochuan (1948-), PRC banker and politician, governor of People's Bank of China 中国人民银行 2002-2018
山川	shānchuān	mountains and rivers; landscape

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