淀み

よどみ

stagnation, deposit, sediment, backwater

淀む

よどむ

to stagnate

淀木瓜

よどぼけ

Choenomeles lagenaria, yodoboke flowering quince

早牛も淀、遅牛も淀

はやうしもよどおそうしもよど

there is no point in hurrying; hurry no man's cattle; fast oxes (leaving Kyoto) end up in Yodo (just south of Kyoto), slow oxes also end up in Yodo

遅牛も淀、早牛も淀

おそうしもよどはやうしもよど

there is no point in hurrying; hurry no man's cattle; slow oxes (leaving Kyoto) end up in Yodo (just south of Kyoto), fast oxes also end up in Yodo

言い淀む

いいよどむ

to hesitate to say

淀み無く

よどみなく

fluently, without hesitation, without faltering

淀み無い

よどみない

fluent, smooth, flowing

川

かわ がわ

river, stream

川筋

かわすじ

course of a river, land along a river

支川

しせん

affluent, branch stream that flows into a main stream

川鵜

かわう カワウ

great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

山川

やまがわ さんせん やまかわ

mountains and rivers

古川

ふるかわ

old river

川風

かわかぜ かわふう

breeze off a river

川舟

かわぶね かせん

riverboat, rivercraft

川尻

かわじり

mouth of a river, lower stream

川路

かわじ

river's course

滝川

たきがわ

rapids