Chinese symbol for “peacemaker”
和事佬
hé shì lǎo
peacemaker; mediator; (derog.) fixer
The closest CC-CEDICT match for peacemaker is 和事佬 (hé shì lǎo), defined as: peacemaker; mediator; (derog.) fixer.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 和事佬.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 和平 | hé píng | peace; peaceful |
| 共和国 (共和國) | gòng hé guó | republic |
| 和谐 (和諧) | hé xié | harmonious; harmony |
| 和尚 | hé shang | Buddhist monk |
| 共和 | gòng hé | republic; republicanism |
| 温和 (溫和) | wēn hé | mild; gentle |
| 事件 | shì jiàn | incident; event |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business; measure word: 件 (jiàn), 桩 (zhuāng) |
| 大佬 | dà lǎo | big shot (leading some field or group); godfather (in an organization) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “peacemaker”.
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.