合
hégě HSK2

to join

合 hé frequency
fit verb
to suit, match, or be equal to

这个方案不合实际。

zhè​ge fāng'àn bù hé shí​jì.

This plan is impractical.

join verb
to combine, join, or act together; whole

请把这两块积木合在一起。

qǐng bǎ zhè liǎng kuài jī​mù hé zài​yī​qǐ.

Please put these two building blocks together.

close expression
to shut or close

他累得合不上眼。

tā lèi de hé​bù​shàng​yǎn.

He was so tired he couldn't keep his eyes open.

conjunction verb
the meeting or alignment of celestial bodies in astronomy

此时正值行星相合。

cǐ​shí zhèng zhí xíng​xīng xiāng hé.

It is currently the time of planetary conjunction.

note verb
the first note of the traditional Chinese pentatonic scale

“合”是工尺谱中的一个基本音级。

“ hé” shì gōng​chě​pǔ zhōng de yī gè jī​běn yīn jí.

'He' is a basic note in the Gongche notation system.

round measure word
a quantifier for rounds of combat or battle

张飞与马超大战百余合。

Zhāng Fēi yǔ Mǎ Chāo dà​zhàn bǎi​yú hé.

Zhang Fei and Ma Chao fought for over a hundred rounds.

合 gě
deciliter measure word
A traditional unit of dry measure for grain, standardized as 100 ml, equivalent to one-tenth of a 升 shēng or one-hundredth of a 斗 dǒu.

以前的人常用一合米来衡量少量的粮食。

yǐ​qián de rén cháng​yòng yī gě mǐ lái héng​liáng shǎo​liàng de liáng​shi.

People in the past often used a 'ge' of rice to measure small amounts of grain.

Cross-References

Old variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
171st most common 1236.5 per million
Movie subtitles
285th most common 584.5 per million appears in 90% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
42.5 per million appears in 16% of films
Written text
90.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
閤
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5408

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)