in English

hòu
to wait / to inquire after / to watch / season / climate / (old) period of five days

Stroke order

Le caractère 候 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 候 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • “你什么时候回来?”“这都要看天气。”

    "When will you come back?" "It all depends on the weather."

  • 23点我打电话给她的时候,她已经去睡觉了。

    She had already gone to bed when I phoned her at 11:00 p.m.

  • Mick等待约会的时候靠读杂志打发时间。

    Mick killed time by reading a magazine while waiting for his date.

  • 一个入室盗窃者趁我去旅游的时候闯入了我家。

    A burglar broke into my house while I was away on a trip.

  • 上次我见到她的时候,她看上去挺好的。

    She looked well when I last saw her.

  • 不在祖国的时候我很想家,但是在家的时候我又想旅游。

    When I'm away from home, I miss it dearly, but when I am at home, I want to travel.

  • 不知道他什么时候才回来。

    I don't know when he'll come back.

  • 世界末日是什么时候?

    When will the world come to an end?

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