河

bamboo growing along a river bank

Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides); giant timber bamboo; madake

Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)

Archaic

prostitute; the life of a prostitute

Yellow River civilization; Huang civilization; cradle of Chinese civilization

Proverb; From a poem by Du Fu

the land outlasts the king; a country may fall but its mountains and rivers remain

river breaking through (its dikes)

pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)

fugu poison

small and medium-sized rivers

Mikawa manzai; style of manzai originating in the Mikawa region in Aichi prefecture

Astronomy

spiral galaxy

Yangtze and Yellow rivers; large river

bigeye trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus); bigeye jack; great trevally; six-banded trevally; dusky jack

glacial lake

Word usually written using kana alone

bluespotted boxfish (Ostracion immaculatus)

boxfish (any fish of family Ostraciidae); trunkfish

Buddhism

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

Idiomatic expression

a fish out of water; a kappa up on land

group of galaxies

Takifugu snyderi (species of pufferfish)

great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

purple puffer (Takifugu porphyreus)

Astronomy

barred spiral galaxy

Japanese pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes); Japanese puffer; tiger puffer

Astronomy

elliptical galaxy

pufferfish poisoning

Astronomy

dwarf galaxy