hōu
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to snore
  2. 2 (dialect) cloyingly salty or sweet (so as to be hard to swallow)
  3. 3 (dialect) very; extremely

Examples

Zhè tāng xián de hōu sǎngzi.
This soup is so salty it catches in your throat.

Tips

register
is colloquial and dialectal. Besides 'to snore', northern speakers use it for food too salty or sweet to swallow (), and as an intensifier like 'super' ( = super sweet).

Components

radical
nose
The (nose) radical on the left carries the meaning: snoring is a noise made through the nose. It is one of the rarer radicals, also seen in (to snore loudly).
phonetic
sentence; phrase
Right side is the sound element, here read in its old gōu value, drifting to hōu. It contributes no 'sentence' meaning — it is purely the phonetic tag for this snoring word.

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Stroke Order

hōu