old variant of 和

and / together with / with / sum / union / peace / harmony / Taiwan pr. [han4] when it means "and" or "with"

old variant of 和 / harmonious

he or him / (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant) / (used before sb's name for emphasis) / (used as a meaningless mock object) / other / another

to drink / variant of 嗬

to scare / to intimidate / to threaten / (interjection showing disapproval) tut-tut / (interjection showing astonishment)

expel breath / my goodness

surname He / Japanese (food, clothes etc)

to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence / to join in the singing / to chime in with others

river / CL: 條｜条, 道

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

variant of 合

pit / stone / nucleus / nuclear / to examine / to check / to verify

variant of 核 / to investigate

surname He

what / how / why / which / carry

surname He

to congratulate

crane

(old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / that (preceding a noun)

small box / case

(classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)

what are you doing? / what's he up to?

he or she

(onom.) he he / mischievous laughter

Holland / the Netherlands / abbr. for 荷蘭｜荷兰

lotus

to carry on one's shoulder or back / burden / responsibility

to shout

Yellow River or Huang He

surname He

awe-inspiring / abbr. for 赫茲｜赫兹, hertz (Hz)

other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")

cereal / grain

maxilla and mandible

door / to close / whole

He county in Chaohu 巢湖, Anhui

to scold

single-elimination open tournament (the winner stays on until he is himself defeated)

gully / ravine / Taiwan pr. [huo4]

Hai He (a system of five waterways around Tianjin, flowing into Bohai 渤海 at Dagukou 大沽口)

Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning

to sail west (from China) (used in reference to the 15th century voyages of Zheng He 鄭和｜郑和 to regions bordering the Indian Ocean)

lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains / give him an inch, and he'll want a mile

each takes what he needs (idiom)

Zheng He (1371-1433), famous early Ming dynasty admiral and explorer

brown / gray or dark color / coarse hemp cloth / Taiwan pr. [he2]

He river in Shandong

to throw stones at sb who has fallen down a well (idiom) / to hit a person when he's down

did I ever ...? (or "did he ever ...?" etc)

He Long (1896-1969), important communist military leader, died from persecution during the Cultural Revolution

Li He (790-816), Tang poet

quill

who do (you) think (you) are? / who does (he, she etc) think (he, she) is?

variant of 盍

why not

lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people

not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom) / frank / outspoken

lit. if he orders you go, he forbids you stop (idiom); fig. to demand exact compliance with instructions / to ensure strictly obedience

(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛｜陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary

raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) / raccoon of North China, Korea and Japan (Japanese: tanuki) / also pr. [hao2]

Xiao He (-193 BC), famous strategist and chancellor, fought on Liu Bang's 劉邦｜刘邦 side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭｜楚汉战争

lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful

tassels

where do these words stem from? / why do you (he, etc) say such a thing?

obstruct

He Zhizhang (659-744), Tang dynasty poet

glistening plumage of birds

"he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相 by Du Fu 杜甫)

Mike He (1983-), Taiwanese actor

(coll.) he-man

what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on?

name of a person

Xie He (479-502), portrait painter from Qi of Southern dynasties 南齊

each one does what he thinks is right (idiom) / each goes his own way

to dry / to dry up

why / how / when / what / where

see 餄餎｜饸饹

to impeach

hot

He Zizhen (1910-1984), Mao Zedong's third wife

if I (you, she, he...) had known it would come to this, I (you, she, he...) would not have acted thus (idiom) / to regret vainly one's past behavior

(Cantonese) he, she, it

He Chao (active c. 711), Tang dynasty poet

He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects). / Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow.

crossbill / long-tailed pheasant

(interjection expressing surprise) oh! / wow!

He Yingqin (1890-1987), senior Guomindang general

(literary) to gnaw / to bite

hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions

lit. speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrives / fig. speak of the devil and he doth appear

vessel similar to a kettle, but with three or four legs, used in ancient times for warming wine

buskin / name of a tribe / turban

to support a child (or invalid etc) while he or she defecates

nothing he can't do

frightened / terrified

lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose

a student should not be guided until he has made an effort to express his thoughts (idiom)

he / she / (courteous, as opposed to 他)

Huang He Inundated Area, the area flooded in 1938 when dikes along the Yellow River were destroyed in an attempt to halt the advance of Japanese troops / (historically) Huang He floodable area