漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
候: climate, season
Also: weather, wait for, expect
JLPT N310 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
- 亻person(meaning)
- 矦(sound)
亻 carries the meaning · 矦 gives the sound
10 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 候補者こうほしゃcandidate, applicant
- 気候きこうclimate
- 時候じこうseason, time of the year
- 天候てんこうweather
- 兆候ちょうこうsign, indication, omen, symptom
- 立候補するりっこうほするannounce candidacy
そうろうsourou · kun'yomi · on its own
- 候文そうろうぶんwriting in old epistolary style
- 居候いそうろうsomeone living rent-free
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人, as 亻 (meaning) + 矦 (sound)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 亻 + phonetic 矦, as 𠊱. The 矦 component (modified so that ⺈ becomes 乛 on top and 丿 at left becomes 丨) is an ancient form of 侯.
Source: Wiktionary, 候 (rev. 94633932), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side候 climate · 矦
vs侯 marquis · 矢In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · hòu
Same form: 候 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 候 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 候 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin hòu most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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