Character Details
| wait (to) | Ascii: — | w591 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 等候 | děnghòu | deung-hoh | 3+4 | 你们 (you all) + 的 (white + ladle) | 等候 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 2] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - We are waiting for his arrival | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; verb‑verb | 等 (⺮ bamboo radical + 寺 temple) + 候 (亻 person radical + 侯 marquis) | ||||||||||
| Waiting (等) for a person (候). | |||||||||||