Learn Chinese Characters

Meaning

harmonious

Hear the Four Tones

The same syllable “xie” becomes a different word in each tone. 谐 is the 2nd tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.

Stroke Order

Tap Animate to watch the strokes in order, or Practice to trace it yourself.

Common Words

  • 和谐hé xiéharmonious; harmony; (euphemism) to censor
  • 谐和xié héconcordant; harmonious
  • 谐美xié měiharmonious and graceful
  • 谐声xié shēngcombination of a signific component and a phonetic element to form a phono-semantic character, as in 功, which has signific 力 and phonetic 工; (of words or characters) homophonous
  • 调谐tiáo xiéharmonious; to adjust; to tune (e.g. wireless receiver); to bring into harmony

Example Sentence

一家人和和谐谐地生活在一起。Yì jiā rén hé hé xié xié de shēng huó zài yì qǐ.The family lives together in harmony.

一家人Yì jiā rénthe whole familyand和谐hé xiéharmoniousxié(bound form) harmoniousde(adverb marker)生活shēng huóto live在一起zài yì qǐtogether