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The Web Way to Learn a Language
January 28, 2010
The Web Way to Learn a Language
By ERIC A. TAUB
和 living harmoniously
If you have caught the Olympics opening ceremony, you would have seen the Chinese characters formed by the moving blocks display. The word displayed was 和 which is pronounced as he2 (second tone).
This character is actually composed of two characters, on the left is 禾 which means grain, and on the right 口 which means mouth. Both characters taken all together forms the 和 character.
We can say that harmony 和 results when everybody has enough (禾 grain) to eat (口 mouth).
