柔和
roú hé · HSK 7
gentle
🪶 柔 = soft/pliant + 和 = harmony; together a gentle, mild quality
柔 means soft or pliant (think of a supple, bending material), and 和 means harmony or mildness. Combined, 柔和 describes something gentle and soft, like a mild light or a calm voice.
和 — grain 禾 (phonetic) + mouth 口
和 is a phono-semantic compound: 禾 (grain) gives the sound and 口 (mouth) hints at meaning, originally suggesting voices joining in agreement or song. From this it came to mean harmony, peace, and 'together with'. In Japanese it also became the native word for Japan itself.