Meaning & readings
climate, season, weather, wait for, expect
Origin
This character combines a person radical on the left with a sound component on the right that hints at pronunciation. The left side, showing a person, suggests this relates to human observation or waiting—activities a person does. The right component indicates roughly how the character should be pronounced. Over time, the meaning expanded from the basic sense of "waiting" or "watching for something" to include the related idea of observing seasonal patterns and weather conditions—things people watch and wait for as they change throughout the year.
Components
- 亻
- 矦V
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Easily confused with
These look alike but are unrelated in meaning — check the stroke that differs.
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 9
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 4 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #510 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+05019