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Chinese symbol for “fixer”

和事佬
hé shì lǎo
peacemaker; mediator; (derog.) fixer

The closest CC-CEDICT match for fixer is 和事佬 (hé shì lǎo), defined as: peacemaker; mediator; (derog.) fixer.

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Characters and stroke order

和 hé
harmony, peace; calm, peaceful
radical 30 ⼝ · 8 strokes
事 shì
affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
radical 6 ⼅ · 8 strokes
佬 lǎo
elder; mature
radical 9 ⼈ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 和事佬.

WordPinyinMeaning
和平hé píngpeace; peaceful
共和国 (共和國)gòng hé guórepublic
和谐 (和諧)hé xiéharmonious; harmony
和尚hé shangBuddhist monk
共和gòng hérepublic; republicanism
温和 (溫和)wēn hémild; gentle
事件shì jiànincident; event
事情shì qingaffair; matter; thing; business; measure word: 件 (jiàn), 桩 (zhuāng)
大佬dà lǎobig shot (leading some field or group); godfather (in an organization)

See also: Japanese symbol for “fixer”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.