和 [, ]
hé
- Conjunctionand; together with; with (hàn) (joining two nouns)
1.我和你一起去看电影。You and I are going to watch a movie together.
2.请帮我把灯和电视关掉。Please turn off the lights and the TV for me.
3.她带着女儿和丈夫去了机场。She took her daughter and husband to the airport.
- Nounsum (mathematics)
这两个数的和是多少？What is the sum of these two numbers?
- Verbto make peace
- to draw; to tie (sports)
比赛打和了。The game ended in a draw.
- Bound formharmonious (bound form)
- Japan; Japanese (bound form)
hè
- Verbto join in the singing; to chime in with others
1.大家唱得兴起，他也跟着和了几句。Everyone got into the spirit of singing, so he chimed in with a few lines too.
2.他在台上弹着吉他，台下的观众纷纷和着旋律一起欢唱。As he played the guitar on stage, the audience in front of it joined in singing to the melody one after another.
- to compose a poem in reply (to somebody's poem) using the same rhyme sequence
hú
- Verbto complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
1.他打了一张牌后就和了。He played one card and completed the set.
2.别急，再摸一张牌就能和了。Don't rush, draw one more tile and you can complete the set.
3.他盯着手里的牌算了半天，最后一张终于和了。He studied the cards in his hand for a long time, and the final draw finally allowed him to complete the set.
huó
Taiwan pronunciation huò
- Verbto combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water
1.师傅先把水泥和成泥浆，再开始砌墙。The master first mixed the cement into a slurry, then began laying the wall.
2.他往干面粉里加水，慢慢和成光滑的面团。He added water to the dry flour, mixing it until it became a smooth dough.
huò
- Verbto mix (ingredients) together; to blend
- Measure wordclassifier for rinses of clothes; classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
hé
- Adjectiveharmonious (variant of 和 hé) (literary)
About MyCidian
MyCidian is a free, web-based Chinese-English dictionary designed for native English speakers.
MyCidian is heavily inspired by Jisho.org, my favorite Japanese dictionary website. One of my biggest priorities when designing MyCidian was convenience. I wanted looking up a word to be quick, simple, and actually useful for someone who is learning Chinese.
This project is still ongoing and will only get better. It's free and staying that way. Web only, with no app planned. Ad-free for now; if that ever changes, signing in will remove them.
Some decisions
- Recent lookups and your Study List stay in this browser.
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- Every alternate form, not a guess
- One simplified character can stand for several traditional ones — 发 is both 發 (to send) and 髮 (hair). Picking one to display would look cleaner and lose the distinction.
Where the data comes from
- CC-CEDICT
- The core dictionary.
- Make Me a Hanzi
- Stroke order, radicals and character composition.
- HSK 3.0 word lists
- Proficiency-level browsing, by HSK 3.0 level. A word the 3.0 lists leave out keeps its HSK 2.0 level.
- Example sentences
- Over 70,000 checked sentences. About 51,000 were written by Qwen3.8-27B running locally; the rest (about 20,000) are older Claude Haiku examples. They were checked by Claude Sonnet, with a native-speaker spot check (94% natural in a 50-sentence sample). A few hundred older, unchecked Haiku examples are still shown where no checked sentence exists.
- Claude Haiku
- An enrichment pass grouping senses, plus a separate one tagging archaic and literary usage.
Built by Zeb Barrett
FAQ
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- In this browser, on this device. MyCidian never sees which words you save. They won't appear on your phone if you saved them on your laptop. Clearing site data deletes them, and Safari may delete them after about a week without a visit. Use Export on the Study List page to keep a copy.
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Credits
MyCidian is built on several openly licensed datasets. Every one currently in use is credited below, by name, with the licence it ships under.
- CC-CEDICT
- The core dictionary — headwords, pinyin and English definitions. Source, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Make Me a Hanzi — dictionary data
- Character definitions, derived from Unihan and CJKlib. Source, licensed LGPL 3.0.
- Make Me a Hanzi — stroke-order graphics
- Stroke order animation, radicals and character decomposition, derived from the Arphic PL KaitiM GB and PL UKai fonts. Source, licensed under the Arphic Public License.
- hanziDB.csv
- Character frequency ranking. Source, licensed MIT.
- HSK 3.0 word lists
- Proficiency-level browsing, compiled from the public HSK 3.0 standard by two open-source projects: complete-hsk-vocabulary and hsk30, both licensed MIT.
- wordfreq
- Word frequency ranking, used to put the commoner word first when several entries share a meaning. Compiled by Robyn Speer at Luminoso (version 3.1.1). Source, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. MyCidian has changed the data: the frequencies are converted to a rank and matched to CC-CEDICT headwords.
- The sources behind wordfreq's Chinese list
- Wikipedia; OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018, from the OpenSubtitles project; SUBTLEX-CH, freely available data created by Marc Brysbaert et al. (Cai & Brysbaert, 2010); NewsCrawl 2014 and GlobalVoices news text; Google Books Ngrams 2012; web text from OSCAR; Twitter; and the word list distributed with the Jieba word segmenter.
See About for how MyCidian is built, or ask a question if something here needs a correction.
Practice sheets
Blank grids for practicing Chinese character strokes by hand — print a sheet and write till your hand falls off
田字格 (tián zì gé)
Quadrant guides for proportion. The standard.
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20 mm boxes — largest
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18 mm boxes
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17 mm boxes — most per page
田字格 sheet, 17 mm boxes (PDF)
米字格 (mǐ zì gé)
Adds diagonals, for placing slanted strokes.
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20 mm boxes — largest
米字格 sheet, 20 mm boxes (PDF) -
18 mm boxes
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17 mm boxes — most per page
米字格 sheet, 17 mm boxes (PDF)
All sheets are A4. Printing on Letter paper? Select "Fit to page" in your print dialog so the grid isn't cropped.
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