chinese symbol for peace?

Question

I am looking up Chinese symbols for my daughter for a project she is doing for school, I am trying to find peace, it comes up with two symbols together and says it means peace but then I have found another site that talks about a woman being in a house means peace. I want peace as in calm, harmony, etc. I don't know if anyone can answer this question without a visual but please help if you know what I am talking about Thanks!

Answer 1

I think the "woman in the house" is in reference to this character:
安
which can mean "peaceful" and is pronounced an1 (steady high tone)

Two characters that mean peace are:
和平
and is pronounced he2 ping2 ("huh-ping" with a rising tone on both syllables). Say a rising tone like you would say a one word question. Such as, "Who?"

See http://www.wku.edu/~shizhen.gao/Chinese101/pinyin/tones.htm
for tones. Click the yin yang symbol to hear the sounds!

Answer 2

Well if you are looking for the Chinese words that describe :-
1. peace and harmony between people and their environments
2. calm and harmonious discussions/negotiations where nobody is shouting or banging the table.
3. calm, peaceful and harmonious society.

Then 和谐 is more appropriate.

Answer 3

All great answers.

If you want a single character that signifies peace (as in no war and universal harmony) then that would be:

和

Harmony in the narrow sense of the word would be:

諧

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

Well, i have Chinese friends who taught me how to write peace in Chinese and here it is its "和平" I'm sorry i can't help you with the Chinese pronunciation, but if read in Japanese it would be read as "wahei". The way to write it in Japanese is the same as the Chinese way, but backwards and that would be "平和" and it would be read as "heiwa"

note:
平-hei (means flat)
和- wa (means addition or to put something together)

I am very sorry I couldn't help you with the Chinese pronunciation, I usually give complete answers but I just don't know how to read it in Chinese.

good luck and I hope I helped.

P.S. the first answer is partially right, but "安"/"an" actually means "calmness" or "peaceful (in terms of the mind and spirit)"