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
- —英文和訳English-Japanese translation
- —母音調和vowel harmony
- —和仏辞典Japanese-French dictionary
- —黒毛和種Japanese Black (breed of cattle)
- —黒毛和牛Japanese Black (breed of cattle)
- —調和平均harmonic mean
- —和解離婚divorce by settlement
- —同胞融和movement to end discrimination against Burakumin
- —昭和の日Shōwa Day (national holiday; April 29); Showa Day
- —昭和恐慌Shōwa Depression (Japanese part of the Great Depression)
- —平和憲法pacifist constitution (i.e. the current Japanese constitution); peace constitution
- —平和ボケcomplacency about peace; naive belief in continued peace; ignorance of global conflict
- —平和宣言peace declaration
- —相和するto get along well together; to be in tune with one another; to harmonize with each other; to go well together
- —直和集合direct sum
- —和痛分娩delivery with little pain (i.e. through the use of pain-reducing drugs excluding epidurals)
- —和顔愛語with a gentle face and a nice word
- —講和条件peace terms; conditions of peace
- —飽和攻撃saturation attack
- —和同開珎wadō kaichin; Japan's first circulated coinage (minted in 708 CE)