等候 děnghòu▶ Esperar

Stroke order

等候 is written in 22 strokes across 2 characters.

• 等 — 12 strokes
• 候 — 10 strokes

Senses

1. to wait
2. to wait for

Related words

• 伺候Esperar
• 候选candidato
• 相等Igual
• 等级grado; rango
• 平等igualdad
• 等于Ser igual a; estar a la altura de

等候 is pronounced děnghòu and means “Esperar”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 等候 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.