U+5019 "候" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
候
U+5019 "候" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to wait" or "to await," and it also conveys the concepts of "weather" or "season" when used in compound words like "時候" meaning "time" or "氣候" meaning "climate." Historically, it originates from ancient Chinese scripts, where it depicted a person standing on a lookout, reflecting its core meaning of observing or waiting for something. In modern usage, this character is frequently employed in both everyday language and formal contexts, such as in the word "候選人" meaning candidate, and it is an essential component in expressing temporal and climatic conditions in East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5019 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 候 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 候 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x80 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5019 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005019 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5019 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ADD4 |
| kCCCII | 213225 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5437 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5437 |
| kCangjie | OLNK |
| kCantonese | hau6 |
| kCihaiT | 113.203 |
| kCowles | 1015 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0229.150 |
| kDefinition | wait; expect; visit; greet |
| kEACC | 213225 |
| kFenn | 478A |
| kFennIndex | 157.11 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2723.4 |
| kGB0 | 2682 |
| kGB1 | 2682 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0113e |
| kHangul | 후:0E |
| kHanYu | 10178.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | hou(2060) hòu(300) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10178.050:hòu |
| kHKGlyph | 0190 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0229.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10178.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0108.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3A72 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ADD4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3875 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F4E2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7D26 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5437 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4B5E |
| kJapanese | コウ ゴ そうろう うかがう まつ さぶらう |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1964 |
| kJapaneseKun | SOUROU UKAGAU SABURAU |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kJis0 | 2485 |
| kKangXi | 0108.040 |
| kKarlgren | 79 |
| kKorean | HWU |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0230 |
| kMandarin | hòu |
| kMatthews | 2136 |
| kMeyerWempe | 687 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006843 |
| kMorohashi | 00775 |
| kNelson | 0481 |
| kPhonetic | 446 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1961+9.2.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 9.8 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 33.07 466.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | hòu粵hau6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0230 |
| kTang | *hòu |
| kTGHZ2013 | 139.140:hòu |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hầu |
| kXerox | 241:310 |
| kXHC1983 | 0467.080:hòu |