hé
in harmony
Variant of 和. Phonosemantic compound. 龠 represents the meaning and 禾 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 龢
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
and | ||
Heping district of Shenyang city 瀋陽市|沈阳市, Liaoning | ||
harmonious | ||
republic | ||
People's Republic of China |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 99.6957% of movies
52nd most common character in movies
19th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Unicode | U+9FA2 |
Shuowen | “龢,謂也。讀與和同。” |
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