noun:

• low-grade prostitute; prostitute working from boats on the Sumida River

noun:

• Wye Accord; Wye River Memorandum

noun:

• canal gates; river gates

noun:

• plover on the riverside; plovers near a river

noun:

• Yangtze and Yellow rivers; large river

noun:

• shad (Alosa spp.); river herring - From Latin "Alosa"

noun:

• Eridanus (constellation); the River - From Latin

noun:

• kaluga (Huso dauricus); river beluga

noun:

• Balitoridae; family comprising the river loaches

noun:

• malabar grouper (Epinephelus malabaricus); estuary cod; greasy cod; spotted river cod; estuary rock cod

noun:

• canopy goanna (Varanus keithhornei, species of carnivorous monitor lizard native to Northeast Australia); blue-nosed goanna; Nesbit River monitor

noun:

• loess; yellow sand; bai; dust from the Yellow River region (China) ➜ 黄砂【こうさ】

noun:

• famous mineral water; famous spring; famous river

noun:

• fishing weir; fish weir; fish trap; pouch-shaped bamboo fence across river, etc.

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to traverse
• to lay across; to build across
• to hand over; to hand in; to pass; to give; to transfer

noun:

• upper reaches (of a river); upper stream Antonym: 下【しも】
• top; upper part; upper half (of the body)
• long ago
• beginning; first
• person of high rank (e.g. the emperor) - honorific language ➜ 御上
• government; imperial court
• imperial capital (i.e. Kyoto); capital region (i.e. Kansai); region (or direction of) the imperial palace ➜ 上方【かみがた】
• head (of a table)
• wife; mistress (of a restaurant) - honorific language

noun:

• lower reaches (of a river) Antonym: 上【かみ】
• bottom; lower part
• lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); urine; menses
• end; far from the imperial palace (i.e. far from Kyoto, esp. of western Japan)

~の noun:

• dirty (e.g. dirty jokes, etc.)

noun:

• (river) basin

noun:

• source (of a river); fountainhead
• source; origin; root

noun:

• main course (of a river)

noun / ~の noun:

• mainstream; main current (e.g. of thought)

noun:

• source (e.g. of a river); headwaters
• origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)

noun / ~の noun:

• both banks (of a river)

~の noun:

• forked (road, river)

noun / ~する noun:

• rising water (of river, lake, etc.); swelling water; increased water; high water ➜ 減水

noun:

• Nile (river)