hòu

  1. hòu verb to wait
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 等待 (Guoyu '候' v 2; Unihan '候'; XHZD '候' 1)
  2. hòu verb to watch; to observe
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 诊察 (Guoyu '候' v 5; Unihan '候'; XHZD '候' 3)
  3. hòu verb to visit
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 探望 (Guoyu '候' v 3; Unihan '候'; XHZD '候' 2)
  4. hòu noun time; season
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 时间 or 时节 (Guoyu '候' n 1; XHZD '候' 4)
  5. hòu noun state; condition
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 情况 (Guoyu '候' n 1; XHZD '候' 5)
  6. hòu verb to investigate
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 侦察 (Guoyu '候'v 1)
  7. hòu verb to attend to; to care for; to serve
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 服侍 (Guoyu '候' v 4)
  8. hòu verb to divine
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 占卜 (Guoyu '候' v 6)
  9. hòu verb to pay
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Dialect
    Notes: Northern dialect; in the sense of 支付 (Guoyu '候' v 7)
  10. hòu noun season; time; velā
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: velā, Tibetan: dus tshod (BCSD '候', p. 143; Mahāvyutpatti 'velā'; MW 'velā')

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