耶和华 (yē hé huá) — Jehovah (name for God in the Bible)

Definition

noun

Jehovah (name for God in the Bible)

耶和华。
Xǔ duō jiào tú xiāng xìn yē hé huá shì wéi yī de shén.
Many believers believe that Jehovah is the only God.
耶和华。
yē hé huá Zhè ge míng zì chū xiàn zài shèng jīng de hěn duō dì fāng.
The name Jehovah appears in many places in the Bible.
耶和华。
Tā men dìng qī qù jiào táng jìng bài yē hé huá.
They regularly go to church to worship Jehovah.

Single-morpheme word

构词法gòucífǎ

音译yīnyìTransliteration

The characters spell the sound of a foreign word; their individual meanings play no part.

The characters 耶, 和, 华 only represent the sounds of the borrowed name Jehovah and do not contribute meanings of their own.

Sound-only characters

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

禾口和

Meaning part形符xíngfú

口口kǒumouth

Sound part声符shēngfú

禾

Same sound today

和 pairs 禾, which gives the sound, with 口 (mouth), the meaning part; the reference connects this shape to harmony.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 華; 华 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 華 showed flowers on a plant, with stalk and leaves below. The simplified 华 is a later shorthand and not the original picture.

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