Kanji1 / 8
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
- —飽和市場saturated market
- —量的緩和quantitative easing
- —和平会談peace conference; peace talks
- —琴瑟相和pair of persons (especially a married couple) being intimate and harmonious; being happily married
- —和光同塵mingling with the world by hiding one's true talent or knowledge; living a quiet life by effacing oneself
- —平和協議peace conference
- —付和随行participating in something by merely following the leaders
- —陰陽和合the harmony of yin and yang energies
- —資性穏和being of a gentle disposition; being of a mild character
- —昭和一桁(generation born in) the first nine years of the Shōwa period (1926-1934)
- —融和路線policy of reconciliation
- —和敬清寂harmony, respect, purity and tranquility; the four most important elements of the tea ceremony
- —和食回帰revival of Japanese food
- —和衷協同harmonious cooperation; close cooperation
- —緩和ケアpalliative care
- —同和地区assimilation district; area targeted for antidiscrimination measures; burakumin area
- —不和反目discord and hostility; feud
- —一水和物mono-hydrate
- —溶媒和物solvate
- —昭和元禄the flourishing mid-Shōwa period (1960s and early 1970s) of peace, rapid economic growth, and life of ease