堠 hòu battlements Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Components 土 土 Meaning component tǔ earth earth 侯 侯 Sound component hóu, hòu marquis Character Evolution Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD Regular Modern ▼ More ▲ Less Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangɡoːs Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang Historical images Academia Sinica