hòu
wait
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 矦 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
hòu
wait; expect; visit; greet; to wait; to inquire after; to watch; season; climate; (old) period of five days
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤ(r)o-s | huwH | hòu | wait upon |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 98.8147% of movies
145th most common character in movies
341st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5019 |
Shuowen | “，伺望也。从人，矦聲。” |
Sources
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