候 — climate, season, weather

そうろう候 climate

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+5019 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #510 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1769 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

climate
season
weather
wait for
expect

word

そうろう sourou Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

候(そうろう) sourou to be

こう kou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

気(き) 候(こう) kikou climate 天(てん) 候(こう) tenkou weather 兆(ちょう) 候(こう) choukou sign 候(こう) 補(ほ) kouho candidate 立(りっ) 候(こう) 補(ほ) rikkouho candidacy 症(しょう) 候(こう) 群(ぐん) shoukougun syndrome

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亻 person (left form)

丨 pole

や矢 arrow #111

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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