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候

候

候 U+5019, 候
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5019
← 倘
[U+5018] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倚 →
[U+501A]
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, composition ⿰⿰亻丨⿱⿱𠃍一矢 or ⿰⿰亻丨⿱⿱乛一矢)

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 候

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (侯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
緱 *koː, *koː
侯 *ɡoː
喉 *ɡoː
猴 *ɡoː
瘊 *ɡoː
篌 *ɡoː
糇 *ɡoː
帿 *ɡoː
睺 *ɡoː, *ɡoːs
矦 *ɡoː
餱 *ɡoː
翭 *ɡoː
葔 *ɡoː
鄇 *ɡoː, *ɡoːs
鍭 *ɡoː, *ɡoːs
鯸 *ɡoː
候 *ɡoːs
堠 *ɡoːs

Pronunciation

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 候
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hòu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ huwH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˤ(r)o-s/
English wait upon

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 候
Reading # 1/1
No. 5154
Phonetic
component		 侯
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 𠋫
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡoːs/

Definitions

候

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

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

候

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. climate
  2. season
  3. weather

Readings

Noun

候 ‎(hiragana こう, romaji kō)

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

Korean

Hanja

候 • ‎(hu) (hangeul 후)

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Vietnamese

Han character

候 (hầu, hậu, thoắng)

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