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糇
hóu
What 糇 means
- dry provisions
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
- 堠hòumounds for beacons
- 篌hóuused in 箜篌
Sounds the same
Read hóu, tone for tone, but written differently.
- 猴monkey
- 喉throat; larynx
- 侯marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位; nobleman…
- 骺(anatomy) epiphysis
- 瘊wart
- 篌used in 箜篌
- 睺(appears as phonetic ho, especially in words taken from Sanskrit); half-blind (archaic)
- 𬭤metal arrowhead
- 鯸blowfish
- 矦old variant of 侯
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