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禾

hé

Character

What 禾 means

1. bound formgrain plant; cereal crop

Words starting with 禾

• 禾场hé chángthreshing floor
• 禾稻hé dàopaddy (rice)
• 禾谷hé gǔcereal; food grain
• 禾苗hé miáoseedling (of rice or other grain)
• 禾草hé cǎograss
• 禾木科hé mù kēgramineae (family including bamboo, cereals, rice)
• 禾本科hé běn kēGraminae or Poaceae, the grass family
• 禾秆hé gǎnstraw

Words containing 禾

• 柴禾chái héplant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)
• 嘉禾县Jiā hé XiànJiahe, a county in Chenzhou City 郴州市
• 柴禾妞chái hé niū(dialect) country girl; unsophisticated girl
• 乌尔禾区Wū ěr hé QūOrku, a district of Karamay City 克拉玛依市
• 爪哇禾雀Zhǎo wā hé què(bird species of China) Java sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora)
• 嘉禾Jiā hésee 嘉禾县
• 乌尔禾Wū ěr hésee 乌尔禾区

Characters built on 木

These share the phonetic component 木 (mù), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 格gésquare; lattice; grid; frame; compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit)…
• 核hépit; stone; nucleus
• 柯kē(literary) branch; stem; stalk; (literary) ax handle
• 棵kēclassifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc
• 椰yē(bound form) coconut palm; Taiwan pr. yé
• 柘zhèa thorny tree; sugarcane; Cudrania triloba

Characters that look like 禾

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 术shùmethod; technique
• 未wèinot yet; did not; have not
• 尽jìnto use up; to exhaust; to end
• 米mǐuncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan
• 木mù(bound form) tree; (bound form) wood; unresponsive; numb; wooden
• 末mòtip; end; final stage

Sounds the same

Read hé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 和(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn); (math) sum; to make peace
• 河river; (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way
• 合to close; to join; to fit
• 何what; how; why
• 盒small box; case
• 核pit; stone; nucleus
• 阂obstruct
• 荷lotus
• 阖door; to close; whole
• 曷why; how; when
• 劾to impeach
• 涸to dry; to dry up