Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 候

Modern (Beijing) reading: hòu

Preclassic Old Chinese: ghōʔs

Classic Old Chinese: ghōh

Western Han Chinese: ɣōh

Eastern Han Chinese: ɣōh

Early Postclassic Chinese: ɣṑ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ɣṑ

Late Postclassic Chinese: ɣṑ

Middle Chinese: ɣʌ̀w

English meaning : to wait, serve

Russian meaning[s]: 1) ждать, выжидать; 2) осведомляться; навещать; 3) выведывать, разведывать; 4) время, период; сезон; сезонный; 5) погода; климат; 6) состояние, положение; 7) счет (кредит); 8) крепостца, см. 堠

Comments: Probably the same word as 後 (in its 去聲 reading) q.v. Viet. hâu is colloquial; standard Sino-Viet. is hậu.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 9

Four-angle index: 5044

Karlgren code: 0113 e

Vietnamese reading: hâu

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