{"id":518,"date":"2007-10-19T16:48:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T15:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/19\/word-of-the-day-he\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T16:48:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T15:48:59","slug":"word-of-the-day-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; \u548c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/chinese_he.gif\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" alt=\"The Chinese character h\u00e9\" align=\"right\" \/>In Mandarin Chinese, the word \u548c (h\u00e9) has a number of meanings. On it&#8217;s own it is usually means &#8216;and&#8217;, but also means harmony, peace, to be affable, the sum, and &#8216;of Japan&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few words featuring this character:<br \/>\n\u548c\u5e73 (h\u00e9p\u00edng) &#8211; peace; peaceful; mild<br \/>\n\u548c\u9cf4 [\u548c\u9e23] (h\u00e9m\u00edng) &#8211; to sound in harmony<br \/>\n\u548c\u98a8 [\u548c\u98ce] (h\u00e9feng) &#8211; a gentle breeze<br \/>\n\u548c\u670d (h\u00e9f\u00fa) &#8211; a (Japanese) kimono<br \/>\n\u548c\u6c23 [\u548c\u6c14] (h\u00e9qi) &#8211; gentle; affable; agreeable; friendly<br \/>\n\u548c\u8072 [\u548c\u58f0] (h\u00e9sheng) &#8211; (musical) harmony<\/p>\n<p>When pronounced <em>h\u00e8<\/em>, this character means to match; to harmonize, or to write a poem in reply (\u548c\u8a69). It has another pronunciation &#8211; <em>hu\u00f2<\/em> &#8211; which means to knead or to mix. Apparently some people pronounce it <em>han<\/em> as well, but I&#8217;ve never heard that pronunciation.<\/p>\n<p>In Japanese, this character is pronounced <em>wa<\/em>, <em>o<\/em>, <em>yawa-<\/em> or <em>nago-<\/em> and means peace; harmony; the sum; the total; Japan and various other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mandarin Chinese, the word \u548c (h\u00e9) has a number of meanings. On it&#8217;s own it is usually means &#8216;and&#8217;, but also means harmony, peace, to be affable, the sum, and &#8216;of Japan&#8217;. Here are a few words featuring this character: \u548c\u5e73 (h\u00e9p\u00edng) &#8211; peace; peaceful; mild \u548c\u9cf4 [\u548c\u9e23] (h\u00e9m\u00edng) &#8211; to sound in harmony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,129,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-japanese","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}