候
hòu HSK1

wait

候 hòu
[time/climate] locative
(bound form) time; season; climate; meteorological conditions, as in 时候 shí​hou or 气候 qì​hou
to wait verbnoun
to wait for; to await; to anticipate
to inquire after verbnoun
(bound form) to visit or inquire after someone; to send greetings, as in 问候 wèn​hòu
condition noun
(bound form) condition; state; symptoms, as in 症候 zhèng​hou or 火候 huǒ​hou
to watch
(bound form) to observe; to watch; to look out for
[period]
(bound form) a period of time; specifically, a five-day period in the traditional calendar
surname
a Chinese surname
to serve
(bound form) to serve; to attend to; to wait upon, as in 侍候 shì​hou
to examine
(bound form) to examine or diagnose, specifically to feel the pulse, as in 候脉 hòu​mài

Cross-References

Referenced by

Frequency
Character
Written text
341st most common 645.3 per million
Movie subtitles
145th most common 1245.4 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.05 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
25.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+5019

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