adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) harmonious (old form of 和)
  2. 2 (in names) used as a given name and surname character

Examples

Wēng Tónghé shì Guāngxù huángdì de lǎoshī.
Weng Tonghe was tutor to the Guangxu Emperor.

Tips

history
Not used as an ordinary word — it is an old graphic variant of kept alive almost solely in personal names, most famously the Qing statesman 翁同龢. Modern Chinese always writes .
register
Archaic and onomastic only; you see it in historical names and etymology notes, never in current writing.

Components

semantic
yuè
panpipe; ancient flute
The left side is , a multi-reed panpipe. Tones blending sweetly from such a pipe give the original idea of harmony — the meaning later inherited by .
phonetic
grain plant
On the right, supplies the hé sound — the very same phonetic that stands in modern .

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