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等候
děng​hòu HSK5

wait

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
等候 děng​hòu
wait verb
to wait for someone or something

请在休息区耐心等候。

qǐng zài xiū​xī​qū nài​xīn děng​hòu.

Please wait patiently in the lounge area.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
10.1 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
13.1 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 5

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)