河
hé HSK2

river

河 hé
river noun
river or large natural stream of water

这条河的水流很急。

zhè tiáo hé de shuǐ​liú hěn jí.

The current of this river is very swift.

Yellow River noun
specifically the Yellow River (Huang He), often used in geographical names

由于河里的泥沙非常多，一眼望去水面全是黄色的。

yóu​yú hé lǐ de ní​shā fēi​cháng duō, yī yǎn wàng qù shuǐ​miàn quán shì huáng​sè de.

Due to the large amount of silt in the river, the water looks completely yellow as far as the eye can see.

Milky Way noun
the Milky Way galaxy, usually seen in the compound 银河 Yín​hé

在山顶可以清晰地看到银河。

zài shān​dǐng kě​yǐ qīng​xī de kàn​dào yín hé.

The Milky Way can be clearly seen from the mountaintop.

rice noodles noun
shorthand for rice noodles (河粉 hé​fěn), common on restaurant menus

来一份干炒牛河，谢谢。

lái yī fèn gān​chǎo niú​hé, xiè​xie.

One serving of beef chow fun, please.

Frequency
Character
Written text
574th most common 360.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,178th most common 74.1 per million appears in 23% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
33.8 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
55.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+6CB3

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)