adjective #35,694

Meanings

  1. 1 amicable
  2. 2 harmonious
  3. 3 on good terms

Examples

Línlǐ zhījiān yīnggāi hémùxiāngchǔ.
Neighbors should get along harmoniously.
Tāmen yījiārén fēicháng hémù.
Their whole family is very harmonious.

Tips

usage
rarely stands alone in modern Chinese — you'll almost always see it in compounds like 和睦 (harmonious), (good-neighborly), or (close and friendly). Learn it through these pairings.

Components

radical
eye
on the left is the eye radical, a vertical pictograph of an eye. It tags as a looking-related word; harmonious eyes that meet without flinching mark the friendly gaze names. Compare (watch) and (eye).
phonetic
lump of earth; clod
supplies a phonetic that has drifted from lù to mù, the two sharing closely related Old-Chinese onsets. The same phonetic appears in (land) and the original keeps the warm-earth flavor of solid ground that people stand on together.

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