Illustration: Beside vegetable plots on the edge of a Japanese village, a narrow brook winds between grassy banks and rounded stones. Its clear, shallow water visibly curls around pebbles and carries one fallen leaf downstream.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

小お川がわ

ogawa

stream, brook

Example sentences

小川おがわの水みずは冷つめたいよ。
The water in the stream is cold.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
小川おがわが湖みずうみに注そそいでいる。
A stream flows into the lake.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
私わたしの家いえの近ちかくを小川おがわが流ながれている。
A small stream runs by my house.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 小川

小little; smallOnショウKunちいさい・こ-・お-
川river; streamOnセンKunかわ

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences

Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store

For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store