候

See also 侯

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 𠊱

Han character

候 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人中弓大 (OLNK), four-corner 2723₄)

1. wait
2. expect
3. visit
4. greet

References

• KangXi: page 108, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 775
• Dae Jaweon: page 229, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 178, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5019

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Cantonese

Hanzi

候 (Yale hau6)

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Japanese

Kanji

候 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: そうろう (sōrō), うかがう (ukagau), さぶらう (saburau)

Noun

候 (hiragana こう, romaji kō)

1. (literary) the season, the weather of the current season

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Korean

Hanja

候 (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune-Reischauer hu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

候 (pinyin hòu (hou4), liàng (liang4), Wade-Giles hou⁴, liang⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

候 (hậu, hầu, thoắng)