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徊

huái
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to pace back and forth; to linger

Examples

她独自在公园里徘徊了很久。
Tā dúzì zài gōngyuán lǐ páihuái le hěnjiǔ.
She lingered alone in the park for a long time.
他的思绪一直徘徊在那个夏天。
Tā de sīxù yìzhí páihuái zài nàge xiàtiān.
His thoughts kept lingering on that summer.

Tips

usage
Bound to 徘徊 (to pace, linger, hover). 徊 never stands alone in modern Chinese — it always partners with 徘.

Components

radical
彳 chì
step; to walk (left-side form)
Left-side step radical 彳, half of 行 (to walk). It frames 徊 as a kind of walking — lingering and pacing about.
phonetic
回 huí
to return; to circle
Right side 回 gives the sound (huí shifting to huái) and a fitting image: 回 means 'to circle back', and pacing means going back and forth over the same ground.

Stroke Order

徊 huái