徘徊 páihuái▶ mengembara

Stroke order

徘徊 is written in 20 strokes across 2 characters.

• 徘 — 11 strokes
• 徊 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. to pace back and forth
2. to dither; to hesitate
3. (of sales figures etc) to fluctuate

Related words

• 排放memecat, mengeluarkan
• 派别faksi; kelompok

徘徊 is pronounced páihuái and means “mengembara”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 徘徊 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.