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堠
hòu
What 堠 means
- mounds for beacons
Characters built on 侯
These share the phonetic component 侯 (hóu), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.
- 猴hóumonkey
- 喉hóuthroat; larynx
- 瘊hóuwart
- 缑gōurope attached to a sword hilt; (archaic) hilt; sword
- 篌hóuused in 箜篌
- 糇hóudry provisions
Sounds the same
Read hòu, tone for tone, but written differently.
- 后empress; queen; (archaic) monarch
- 候to wait; to inquire after; to watch
- 厚thick; deep or profound; kind
- 侯used in 闽侯
- 逅used in 邂逅
- 鲎horseshoe crab
- 垕thick
- 豞grunting of pigs
- 鄇place name
- 郈surname Hou; place name
- 鲘see 鳠
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