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柔和

róu hé

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

柔和 (róu hé) means "gentle; soft". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 柔和 means

1. gentle
2. soft

The characters in 柔和

• 柔róusoft; flexible; supple
• 和hé(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn); (math) sum; to make peace

Example sentences

• 28 位专家来自新加坡、美国、法国、日本、瑞士和尼泊尔，他们在手术室里伴随着柔和的古典音乐，不慌不忙地工作。
  The 28 specialists, including experts from Singapore, the United States, France, Japan, Switzerland and Nepal, are working at an unhurried pace to the soft strains of classical music in the operating theater.

Sounds the same

Read róu hé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 揉合to blend; to merge; to mix together
• 揉和to knead (clay)
• 糅合mix together; put together (usu. things that do not blend well together)

Where 柔和 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · rì–ruò (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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