qīng hé. Tones: qīng high and flat, hé rising.

清 — clear and pure — honest character; 和 — harmony and gentleness — peace

Is it a real, usable name?

The pair "和" appears in 140 of 1,142,000 real Chinese names.

Orient Name · 中文名工坊

清和

Qing He

qīng hé

clear and pure — honest character · harmony and gentleness — peace

清澈，清白正直 · 和善，温润如玉

80.9Name score

金Elements

Theme: virtue

What each character carries 逐字小传

Not a dictionary entry: what the character has meant in Chinese names, with the original line it comes from. Every quotation below is matched character-for-character against a versioned corpus shipped with this site. Where a page names a character's origin, that line is our own paraphrase of the standard dictionaries — it is not a quotation, and it carries no book title for that reason.

清qīng · A

tier A

水澄澈；引申为洁净、明白、清朗。

Clear water — and then anything unmuddied: clean, lucid, distinct.

3 处原典 · 3 部典籍 · 全部可核

清扬自守清浊自取

清扬 A face you can read

有美一人，清扬婉兮。

There is a beautiful person, clear-browed and graceful.

诗经 · 野有蔓草 · our translation

This is the earliest place Chinese uses 清 for a person's appearance: brows clear and open. The word starts as visible cleanliness. 「清扬」写的是眉目之间清秀舒展。汉语最早用「清」写人的样子，就是从这里开始的——清先是看得见的干净。

自守 Not the same as the crowd

举世皆浊我独清，众人皆醉我独醒。

The whole world is muddy and I alone am clear; everyone is drunk and I alone am sober.

楚辞 · 渔父 · our translation

Qu Yuan's line, and the price was exile. In a name this is less about defiance than about not becoming what surrounds you. 屈原的话，代价是被放逐。名字取这一层时，取的往往不是对抗，而是不肯同流的那点自持。

清浊自取 You decide which

清斯濯缨，浊斯濯足矣，自取之也。

If the water is clear, wash your hat-ribbon; if it is muddy, wash your feet — the water brings it on itself.

孟子 · 離婁上 · our translation

Clear water washes a hat-ribbon; muddy water washes feet. How others use you follows from what you are. 孟子引孔子的话：清水洗帽缨，浊水洗脚，别人怎么用你，取决于你是什么水。名字里的「清」，这一层最硬。

清扬清泉清风清和清越清川清远清言

In a name

Not coldness: transparency — you can see the bottom.

「清」不是冷，是透亮——看得出底。

和hé · B

tier B

和谐；温和。

Harmony — but not sameness.

1 处原典 · 1 部典籍 · 全部可核

和而不同

和而不同 The distinction that matters

君子和而不同，小人同而不和。

A gentleman harmonises without agreeing on everything; a petty person agrees without harmony.

论语 · 子路篇 · our translation

Confucius separates harmony from uniformity: one keeps differences and still holds; the other needs silence. 孔子把「和」与「同」分开：和是各说各的还能合，同是都闭嘴才叫齐。名字用「和」，取的是前者。

和顺平和和之和风清和

In a name

Differences held together, not erased.

「和」是不同还能合。

引文校验：4/4 条在语料库中逐字命中（论语 · 孟子 · 大学 · 中庸 · 诗经 · 楚辞 · 全唐诗）。没有可靠原典的字，我们宁可写「没有」。

How it sounds 怎么念

Mandarin is tonal: the same letters said on a different pitch are a different word. The line below is the pitch you actually travel while saying the name.

qīngT1 · héT2

Tonesqīng high and flat, hé rising

If you don't speak Chinese

Every syllable has a close English equivalent — nothing here is hard to say.

Is it a real name? 有多真

We checked it against a corpus of 1,142,000 real Chinese names — this is not a combination invented for the page.

The pair 「和」 appears in 140 real names

The corpus describes how many people are actually called this. It is never used to judge whether a name is good.

How this score is built 评分怎么来的

Five dimensions, each scored independently. Every bar below is a real computed value — the same rule set that generated the candidate list, not a separate "premium" model.

Meaning & imagery19.9/30

Sound22.9/25

Naturalness17.1/20

Name + surname11.0/15

Writing10.0/10

How people will actually call you 别人会怎么叫你

A Chinese name is almost never used in full. In daily life it gets a prefix, a suffix, or is cut to the given name alone — and which one you get tells you how close the person thinks they are to you.

清和Full name. Documents, a first introduction, anyone who is not yet a friend.

小清 / 老清Surname with a size prefix — 小 (little) for someone younger or junior, 老 (old) for a colleague who is senior. This is how a Chinese office usually separates two people with the same surname.

清哥 / 清姐Surname + ‘brother’/‘sister’. Warm without being intimate — a shopkeeper, a neighbour, or a colleague a few years older than you.

和Given name on its own. Family and close friends. An elder using just this is affectionate, not curt.

Patterns, not rules: what you are called depends on your age, the relationship, and the region. In the south you will also hear 阿 + given name between friends.

FAQ 常见问题

How do I say 清和?: qīng hé. Tones: qīng high and flat, hé rising.
What does it mean?: 清 — clear and pure — honest character; 和 — harmony and gentleness — peace
Is it a real, usable name?: The pair "和" appears in 140 of 1,142,000 real Chinese names.

Read together

clear water · harmony — taken as one scene rather than three separate definitions.

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