徘徊 páihuái▶ ร่อนเร่, เตร็ดเตร่

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ปล่อยออก
• 派别กลุ่ม; พวก

徘徊 is pronounced páihuái and means “ร่อนเร่, เตร็ดเตร่”. 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.