Milky Way in Chinese (Mandarin): 银河 (yínhé)
银河
yínhé
Milky Way
- Simplified
- 银河
- Traditional
- 銀河
- Pinyin
- yínhé
- Typed as
- yinhe
Use it in a sentence
晚上能看到银河。
晚上能看到銀河。
You can see the Milky Way at night.
The characters in 银河
银 / 銀
Silver. 钅 (metal) is on the left.
11 strokes
河
River. 氵 (water) is on the left.
8 strokes
银河 is the "silver river" across the night sky. In a Chinese legend, the cowherd and the weaver girl live on either side of it and meet once a year on Qixi.
More examples with 银河
银河里有很多很多星星。
銀河裡有很多很多星星。
Yínhé li yǒu hěn duō hěn duō xīngxing.
There are many, many stars in the Milky Way.
牛郎和织女住在银河两边。
牛郎和織女住在銀河兩邊。
Niúláng hé Zhīnǚ zhù zài yínhé liǎng biān.
The cowherd and the weaver girl live on both sides of the Milky Way.
How to write 银河 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
银 11 strokes
河 8 strokes
In Traditional characters:
銀 14 strokes
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