和 · hé
harmony, peace; peaceful, calm
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
harmony, peace; peaceful, calm
- Mandarin
- hé
- Cantonese
- wo4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 和 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
ワ オ カ やわらぐ やわらげる なごむ なごやか あえるKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 화
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+548C
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 和
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- hwa · 戸戈 反切 · #753
- Middle Chinese
- hwaH · 胡卧 反切 · #2836
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6132 · hwa = 果合一平戈匣 · hwaH = 果合一去戈匣
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- hé
- kCantonese
- wo4
- kDefinition
- harmony, peace; peaceful, calm
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 30.5
- kTGH
- 2013:1131
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- hè,hé,huò,huó,hú 10602.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- hé 0453.060 · hè 0455.130 · hú 0474.120 · huó 0510.010 · huò 0515.120
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- hé 134.020 · hè 135.090 · hú 140.100 · huó 150.190 · huò 151.090 · huo 152.090
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- hé(9513) huo(38) he(24) hè(9)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- hé粵wo4 hè粵wo6 huó粵wo6 hú粵wu2
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 戶戈 胡卧
- Kangxi positions
- 0185.010
- Guangyun positions
- 163.43 420.13
- GSR references
- 0008e
- Cangjie
- HDR
- Four-corner
- 2690.0