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和 kanji
harmony, Japanese style, peace, soften, Japan
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ワオカ
Kun readings
やわらぐやわらげるなごむなごやかあえる
Variant forms
龢Words with 和
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —和洋室hotel room with both Western and Japanese elements (usu. with Western-style beds and a separate tatami-floored living area)
- —和裁士kimono maker; kimono tailor
- —属和音dominant chord
- —和歌山Wakayama (city, prefecture)
- —和学者scholar of (ancient) Japanese literature and culture
- —和漢洋Japan, China and the West; Japanese, Chinese and Western learning
- —非調和anharmonic; non-harmonic; discordant
- —宗和流Sōwa school of tea ceremony
- —純和風traditionally Japanese style; purely Japanese style
- —和食店Japanese restaurant
- —和食屋Japanese restaurant
- —和歌所Waka Office; government office responsible for compiling imperially commissioned anthologies of waka poetry
- —和解金out-of-court settlement payment
- —和平案peace plan; peace program
- —和彫りwabori; traditional Japanese tattooing
- —和辛子Japanese-style mustard
- —和ゲーJapanese video game
- —和将棋wa shogi (large 11x11 board shogi variant with piece names mainly based on animals)
- —溶媒和solvation
- —緩和剤palliative; mitigative; lenitive; alleviant; obtundent; anesthetic; demulcent