候
weather; candidate; climate; season; wait for; expect
10 strokes. Taught in grade 4. Newspaper frequency rank 510.
Readings
- コウ (on reading): 候補 (こうほ) candidate; 気候 (きこう) climate
- そうろう (kun reading): 居候 (いそうろう) lodger who pays nothing for room and board; 候文 (そうろうぶん) epistolary style using the auxiliary "sōrō" in place of "aru"
Components
- 亻
- 矦
- ｜ radical vertical stroke
- ユ radical katakana yu shape
- 乞 radical beg
- ⺅ radical person, left-side form of 人
- 矢 radical arrow
Words using 候
- 候補 (こうほ) candidate
- 気候 (きこう) climate
- 立候補 (りっこうほ) candidacy
- 天候 (てんこう) weather
- 候補者 (こうほしゃ) candidate
- 居候 (いそうろう) lodger who pays nothing for room and board
- 候文 (そうろうぶん) epistolary style using the auxiliary "sōrō" in place of "aru"
- 候由 (そうろうよし) I hear that ...
- 候哉 (そうろうや) I wonder if ...
- 候処 (そうろうところ) just
- 候ふ (さぶらう) to attend (a person of high rank)
- 候 (そろ) to be
- で候 (でそう) be
- 候へ (そえ) please ...
251 words in all.