Can へ mean "and"?


Can へ mean "and"? In Chinese 和 means "and" and is read "he", so I'm just
hopeful... I don't mean in the present necessarily, just at any point in the
language's history. I know へ is used as a direction marker... just wondering
if there was another use.




No, it can't.

へ as a particle in Japanese maintains the meaning of direction and is
unrelated to any meaning of "and." Furthermore, the pronunciation of "he" i
Chinese is quite different from the pronunciation of へ in Japanese, so even
that much is a but of a stretch. They're alike in romanization only. This is
even more irrelevant because when Japanese uses the character 和 with its
Chinese-derived pronunciation, it becomes "wa."

和 in Japanese refers to peace/harmony, like in 平和, or to Japan itself as in
大和{やまと} or 和風{わふう}.

