侯
hóuHóuhòu

marquis

侯 hóu frequency
nobleman idiom
a high-ranking official or member of the aristocracy

王侯将相宁有种乎？

wáng hóu jiàng xiàng nìng yǒu​zhǒng hū?

Are kings, nobles, generals, and ministers born into their ranks?

marquis noun
the second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility (五等爵位 wǔ​děng​jué​wèi)

西汉开国功臣张良被封为留侯。

Xī Hàn kāi​guó gōng​chén Zhāng Liáng bèi fēng​wéi Liú Hóu.

Zhang Liang, a founding official of the Western Han Dynasty, was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Liu.

侯 Hóu
Hou proper name
surname Hou

侯先生是我们的邻居。

Hóu xiān​sheng shì wǒ​men de lín​jū.

Mr. Hou is our neighbor.

侯 hòu
Minhou noun
used in the name of the place Minhou in Fujian

他在福州读大学，周末经常去闽侯县找朋友玩。

tā zài Fú​zhōu dú dà​xué, zhōu​mò jīng​cháng qù Mǐn hòu xiàn zhǎo péng​you wán.

He is a university student in Fuzhou and often goes to Minhou County to hang out with friends on weekends.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,756th most common 49.5 per million
Movie subtitles
2,826th most common 4.63 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.17 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
14.6 per million

Details
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+4FAF

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)