Chinese Character Wiki
合

hé, gě

to join

Depicts two mouths talking to each other.

Components
口 iconic component

口  Iconic component

kǒu

  

mouth

口 iconic component

口  Iconic component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

合 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
合 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
合 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
合 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
合 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

合  

hé

combine, unite, join; gather; to close; to join; to fit; to be equal to; whole; together; round (in battle); conjunction (astronomy); 1st note of pentatonic scale; old variant of 盒[hé]

合  

gě

100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗

合 (閤) 

hé

variant of 合[hé]

Most common words with 合
Freq.
Word
Meaning

合作

to cooperate

适合

to fit

合适

suitable

合

to close

结合

to combine

Component uses

Meaning component in 5 characters (2 verified)

会 會 洽 翕 搿

Sound component in 22 characters (7 verified)

給 给 答 哈 拾 盒 荅 恰 鴿 鸽 颌 頜 蛤 龕 龛 袷 餄 饸 铪 閤 峇 耠

Iconic component in 2 characters (2 verified)

仓 倉

Simplified component in 2 characters (2 verified)

会 仓

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kˤop

kop

gě

together; put together; combined

*m-kˤop

hop

hé

come together; bring together


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 90.2130% of movies

285th most common character in movies

171st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5408

Shuowen

“合，合口也。从亼，从口。”


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