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峡

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gorge

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Old HSK
Level 6
Strokes
9
Radical
山 +6
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
峽
Common rank
#1,379
Unicode
U+5CE1

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Formation & memory

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How 峡 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

The space between 夹 two mountains 山; 夹 also provides the pronunciation

Components 山 夹

How to remember it

gorge · Heisig RSH #1936

山 mountain + 夹 press from both sides

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 峡

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
海峡交流基金会 Hǎi xiá Jiāo liú Jī jīn huì Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF); abbr. to 海基會|海基会[Hai3 ji1 hui4]
布里斯托尔海峡 Bù lǐ sī tuō ěr Hǎi xiá Bristol Channel in southwest England
达达尼尔海峡 Dá dá ní ěr Hǎi xiá Dardanelles Strait; Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı
新海峡时报 Xīn Hǎi xiá Shí bào New Strait Times (newspaper)
科罗拉多大峡谷 Kē luó lā duō dà xiá gǔ the Grand Canyon (Colorado)
波斯普鲁斯海峡 Bō sī pǔ lǔ sī Hǎi xiá the Bosphorus (strait)
三门峡市 Sān mén xiá Shì Sanmenxia, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省[He2 nan2 Sheng3]
对马海峡 Duì mǎ Hǎi xiá Tsushima Strait, between Japan and South Korea
长江三峡 Cháng Jiāng Sān xiá Three Gorges or Yangtze Gorges, namely: Qutang Gorge 瞿塘峽|瞿塘峡[Qu2 tang2 Xia2], Wuxia Gorge …
海峡时报 Hǎi xiá Shí bào The Straits Times
加来海峡 Jiā lái Hǎi xiá Strait of Calais in the English channel; Strait of Dover; Pas-de-Calais, département of Fr…
巴士海峡 Bā shì Hǎi xiá Bashi Channel in the northern part of the Luzon Strait, just south of Taiwan
英吉利海峡 Yīng jí lì Hǎi xiá English Channel
西峡县 Xī xiá Xiàn Xixia, a county in Nanyang City 南陽市|南阳市[Nan2 yang2 Shi4], Henan
三门峡 Sān mén xiá see 三門峽市|三门峡市[San1 men2 xia2 Shi4]
白令海峡 Bái lìng Hǎi xiá the Bering Strait (between Siberia and Alaska)
峡江县 Xiá jiāng Xiàn Xiajiang, a county in Ji'an City 吉安市[Ji2 an1 Shi4], Jiangxi
马六甲海峡 Mǎ liù jiǎ Hǎi xiá Strait of Malacca
海峡群岛 Hǎi xiá Qún dǎo Channel Islands
三峡水库 Sān xiá Shuǐ kù Three Gorges Reservoir on the Changjiang or Yangtze