(hòu) - time, moment (bound morpheme in 时候, 什么时候) in Mandarin
hòuTraditional: 候
Translation
time, moment (bound morpheme in 时候, 什么时候)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character built on the person radical 亻with a phonetic element; it carries the sense of time or moment and appears chiefly in 时候 (shíhou), time.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 亻 (person radical) + phonetic element
Stroke order
候
Examples
？
When are you coming?
。
When I was young, I liked reading.
。
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).
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 候.
Used in
Grammar articles
(4)Mandarin Conjunctions: 虽然…但是, 因为…所以, 如果…就 and the Paired Structures That Join Clauses
Mandarin Question Formation: 吗, V-Not-V, 还是, and the In-Situ Wh-Word System
The Mandarin 是…的 (shì...de) Construction: Highlighting When, Where, and How Something Happened
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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