和
hé
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
And, joining two nouns or pronouns; also 'with'. 我和你 is 'you and I', 爸爸和妈妈 'Dad and Mum'. Meaning 'with', it comes before the verb: 我和朋友去 'I am going with a friend'. Unlike English 'and', it does not join two sentences or clauses.
Liên từ nối hai danh từ hoặc đại từ: và, với, cùng. Ví dụ: 我和你 (tôi và bạn), 爸爸和妈妈 (bố và mẹ). Cũng dùng như giới từ “với, cùng”, đứng trước động từ: 我和朋友去 (tôi đi với bạn). Khác với “và” trong tiếng Việt, 和 không nối hai câu hay hai vế câu.
ConjunctionRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “和” mean?
And, joining two nouns or pronouns; also 'with'. 我和你 is 'you and I', 爸爸和妈妈 'Dad and Mum'. Meaning 'with', it comes before the verb: 我和朋友去 'I am going with a friend'. Unlike English 'and', it does not join two sentences or clauses.
Is “和” formal or informal?
和 is generally neutral.