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hòu HSK1

wait

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Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 矦 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component

亻 is a component form of 人.

矦
矦 Sound component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 矦 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthuwH[g]ˤ(r)o-s wait upon

說文解字

《說文》：“，伺望也。从人，矦聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)