漢和
かんわ · kanwa · JLPT N2 · noun
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📖 漢 Han (China) + 和 wa (Japan) = Chinese-Japanese, the kanji dictionary
漢和 joins 漢 (Han, China's characters) and 和 (wa, Japan), naming a dictionary that explains kanji. Both parts point to the Chinese origin of kanji and their Japanese use.
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.