harmony

Variant of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

禾 sound component

  Sound component

  

grain stalk

Evolution

咊 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
咊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
咊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
咊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

harmony; peace; conciliation; to be on good terms with; kindly; mild

() 

old variant of [hé]

Most common words with 咊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

and

和平

Heping district of Shenyang city 瀋陽市|沈阳市, Liaoning

和谐

harmonious

共和国

republic

中华人民共和国

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

8

Unicode

U+548A

Shuowen

“咊,相譍也。从口,禾聲。”


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