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
- —和親条約treaty of peace and amity; peace treaty
- —平和合意peace agreement
- —和平合意peace accord; peace agreement
- —和菓子屋Japanese-style confectionary store
- —和菓子店Japanese-style confectionary store
- —調和数列harmonic progression
- —空気調和air conditioning
- —一部緩和partial relaxation; partial easing
- —平和思想pacifism; pacifist thought
- —影響緩和impact mitigation
- —標準和名standard Japanese name
- —五族協和five races under one union (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans; founding principle of the Republic of China); harmony of the five races (Manchurians, Han, Mongolians, Koreans, Japanese; official policy of Manchukuo)
- —緩和時間relaxation time
- —昭和維新Shōwa restoration (call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s)
- —渋滞緩和alleviation of congestion (esp. traffic)
- —緩和医療palliative medicine; palliative therapy; palliative treatment; palliative care
- —分散和音broken chord; arpeggio
- —中和反応neutralization reaction
- —減三和音diminished chord; diminished triad
- —長三和音major chord; major triad