Character Details
| wait for (to); condition; state | Ascii: 20889 | w112 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 候 | hòu | hoh | 4 | 亻 (person) + 侯 (marquis) → wait | 候 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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The old Marquis carries a walking stick and spends most of his time waiting as he has grown old and patient. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Please let me know when you are free | - It wasn't raining when I went | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 9 - 人 | rén | person | person | person shape | 人 从 们 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 亻 (person) + 侯 (marquis) → wait | 亻 (person) | 侯 (phonetic) | phonetic from 侯 | ||||||||