hé, hè, hú, huó, huò
harmony
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 禾 represents the sound.
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
Modernhé
harmony, peace; peaceful, calm; and; together with; with; sum; union; peace; harmony; Taiwan pr. [hàn] when it means "and" or "with"
Hé
surname He; Japanese (food, clothes etc)
hè
to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence; to join in the singing; to chime in with others
hú
to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
huó
to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water; Taiwan pr. [huò]
huò
to mix (ingredients) together; to blend; classifier for rinses of clothes; classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
hé
old variant of 和[hé]
hé
harmonious
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
and | ||
Heping district of Shenyang city 瀋陽市|沈阳市, Liaoning | ||
harmonious | ||
republic | ||
People's Republic of China |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ˤoj | hwa | hé | harmonious |
*[ɢ]ˤoj-s | hwaH | hè | tune (instruments); respond in singing |
HSK level 1
Appears in 99.6957% of movies
52nd most common character in movies
19th most common character in books
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+548C |
Shuowen | “咊，相譍也。从口，禾聲。” |
