Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

和

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads
See also: 咊, 龢, and 倭
和 U+548C, 和
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-548C
← 咋
[U+548B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 咍 →
[U+548D]

Translingual

More information Stroke order ...
More information Stroke order ...

Han character

和 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹木口 (HDR), four-corner 26900, composition ⿰禾口)

Derived characters

  • 俰, 啝, 𡞈, 𣷓, 𮠱, 𨨛(𫓼), 𧇮, 萂, 惒, 𨨑

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 185, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3490
  • Dae Jaweon: page 404, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 602, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+548C
Remove ads

Chinese

More information simp. and trad., alternative forms ...

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 和, Western Zhou ...
Characters in the same phonetic series (禾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
More information Old Chinese ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡoːl, *ɡoːls): phonetic 禾 (OC *ɡoːl) + semantic 口 (“mouth”) – harmony. The original version was 龢, with the radical of the flute 𠎤 (> 龠) in its either archaic or contracted version perhaps to indicate the abstract concept of harmony through harmony in music.

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “see talk”)

“and; with”
Zhao (2018) suggests that hàn and hài may ultimately derive from the contractions of 還有／还有 (háiyǒu) in colloquial speech. On the other hand, Yu (1988) and Jiang (2012) argue hàn and hài derive from 喚／唤 (huàn, “to call”).
“Japanese”
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 和(やまと) (Yamato). The original character was a replacement for earlier 倭(わ) (Wa) in 757 CE with a character that sounded similar in contemporary pronunciations of Chinese, 和, due to the offensive meaning of 倭.

Pronunciation 1

Note: wo4-2 - used in names.
Note:
  • hô/hô͘ - literary;
  • hê/hêr/hôe - vernacular.
More information Rime, Character ...
More information Character, Reading # ...
More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

和

  1. peaceful; harmonious
    和平  ―  hépíng  ―  peace, peaceful
  2. gentle; kind
  3. warm; temperate
  4. sum; total
    五加四的和是九。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
    Wǔ jiā sì de hé shì jiǔ. [Pinyin]
    The sum of 5 and 4 is 9.
  5. to make peace; to become reconciled
  6. (sports) to tie
    和波 [Cantonese]  ―  wo4 bo1 [Jyutping]  ―  to tie a football match
  7. (music) An ancient mouth organ similar to the sheng, but smaller; no longer used.
  8. Japanese
    和服  ―  héfú  ―  kimono, Japanese traditional clothing
  9. a surname, He

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (和):
  • → Japanese: 和(か) (ka)
  • → Korean: 화(和) (hwa)
  • → Vietnamese: hoà (和)

Others:

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

和

  1. and
    我和你  ―  wǒ hé nǐ  ―  me and you
    我想買些肉、魚、麵包和雞蛋。 [MSC, trad.]
    我想买些肉、鱼、面包和鸡蛋。 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ xiǎng mǎi xiē ròu, yú, miànbāo hé jīdàn. [Pinyin]
    I want to buy some meat, fish, bread, and eggs.
  2. with
    他和流浪街頭的孩子交上了朋友。 [MSC, trad.]
    他和流浪街头的孩子交上了朋友。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā hé liúlàng jiētóu de háizǐ jiāo shàng le péngyǒu. [Pinyin]
    He has made friends with the kids on the street.
    他想和其他國家採取一致行動。 [MSC, trad.]
    他想和其他国家采取一致行动。 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā xiǎng hé qítā guójiā cǎiqǔ yīzhì xíngdòng. [Pinyin]
    He wants to act in concert with other nations.
    和你的車比起來，我的車很小。 [MSC, trad.]
    和你的车比起来，我的车很小。 [MSC, simp.]
    Hé nǐ de chē bǐqǐ lái, wǒ de chē hěn xiǎo. [Pinyin]
    Compared with yours, my car is small.
    如果你把譯文和原文比較一下，你就會找到不準確的地方。 [MSC, trad.]
    如果你把译文和原文比较一下，你就会找到不准确的地方。 [MSC, simp.]
    Rúguǒ nǐ bǎ yìwén hé yuánwén bǐjiào yīxià, nǐ jiù huì zhǎo dào bù zhǔnquè de dìfang. [Pinyin]
    If you compare the translation with the original, you will find the inaccuracy.
    意思和日語的「ダメ」類似。 [MSC, trad.]
    意思和日语的「ダメ」类似。 [MSC, simp.]
    Yìsī hé rìyǔ de “dame” lèisì. [Pinyin]
    The meaning is similar to the Japanese dame.
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 和 (“and”) [map]
More information Variety, Location ...

Pronunciation 3

More information Rime, Character ...
More information Character, Reading # ...
More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

和

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to make sounds in concert with; to echo
    附和  ―  fùhè  ―  to second, to echo
    唱和  ―  chànghè  ―  antiphon, sung reply
    應和／应和  ―  yìnghè  ―  to echo, to correspond
    酬和  ―  chóuhè  ―  to respond to a poem with a poem

Compounds

Pronunciation 4

Definitions

和

  1. to mix with water to make something stick together; to knead
    和麵／和面  ―  huómiàn  ―  to knead dough

Compounds

Pronunciation 5

Note: gwo3 - variant pronunciation for the classifier.
Note: classifier.

Definitions

和

  1. to mix (usually substances in powder or grain form)
    攪和／搅和  ―  jiǎohuo  ―  to stir, to mix
  2. to add water to make something less thick
  3. Classifier for the number of rinses when washing clothes.
  4. Classifier for the number of times a dose of traditional Chinese medicine is boiled.

Compounds

Pronunciation 6

More information simp. and trad., alternative forms ...

Definitions

和

  1. (mahjong) to have a winning hand
    和牌  ―  húpái  ―  to win in mahjong
Usage notes
  • When playing mahjong, a player may say this word as a call when winning from another player's discard.

Compounds

Synonyms

  • (Cantonese) 食糊
  • (Taiwanese Hokkien) 到 (kàu)

See also

Pronunciation 7

Definitions

和

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) warm
    暖和  ―  nuǎnhuo  ―  warm
    溫和／温和  ―  wēnhuo  ―  warm, lukewarm

Compounds

References

Remove ads

Japanese

Korean

Vietnamese

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads
Remove ads