1 old variant of 和[hé]

1 to hand over

2 to explain

3 to make clear

4 to brief (sb)

5 to account for

6 to justify oneself

7 to confess

8 (coll.) to finish

1 to substitute

2 to act on behalf of others

3 to replace

4 generation

5 dynasty

6 age

7 period

8 (historical) era

9 (geological) eon

1 price

2 cost

3 consideration (in share dealing)

1 to replace

2 to take the place of

1 to echo one another (idiom)

1 to keep on the right side of everyone (idiom)

2 warm and affable

1 lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)

2 fig. at a total loss

1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)

2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business

3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)

1 passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down