和 – harmony, Japanese style, peace

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The kanji 和 means harmony, Japanese style, peace, soften, Japan. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ワ、オ、カ (wa, o, ka); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is やわ.らぐ、やわ.らげる、なご.む、なご.やか、あ.える (yawaragu, yawarageru, nagomu, nagoyaka, aeru). It is written with 8 strokes, under radical 口 (no. 30).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ワ	wa
On’yomi	オ	o
On’yomi	カ	ka
Kun’yomi	やわ.らぐ	yawaragu
Kun’yomi	やわ.らげる	yawarageru
Kun’yomi	なご.む	nagomu
Kun’yomi	なご.やか	nagoyaka
Kun’yomi	あ.える	aeru

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 口 (Kangxi radical 30). Components: 禾・口.

Words using 和

平和へいわpeace和わsum英和えいわEnglish-Japanese漢和かんわChina and Japan和英わえいJapanese-English和服わふくJapanese clothes温和おんわmild (climate)緩和かんわrelief共和きょうわrepublicanism中和ちゅうわneutralization調和ちょうわharmony和文わぶんJapanese text飽和ほうわsaturation和やかなごやかmild和らげるやわらげるto soften

Example sentences

ハトは平和のシンボルである。

The dove is a symbol of peace.

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３角形のすべての角の和は１８０度に等しい。

The sum of all the angles in a triangle equals 180 degrees.

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スポーツではチームの和が成功には欠かせません。

In sport, team harmony is vital to success.

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Kanji with the same radical

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Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.