候
hòuTraditional: 候
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Translation
time, moment (bound morpheme in 时候, 什么时候)
Stroke order
候
Examples
？
When are you coming?
。
When I was young, I liked reading.
念。
Sometimes I miss my family.
稍。
Please wait a moment.
。
There are many people in the waiting room.
候 (hòu) is a bound morpheme meaning time or moment. You will only meet it inside compounds, above all 时候 (time, moment) and the question phrase 什么时候 (when).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 候.
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