He stood motionless at the platform, longing for her return.
Tips
usage
Literary and almost always bound in 伫立 ('to stand for a long time'). It carries an emotional charge - standing still while waiting, longing, or lost in thought - not just physically being upright.
memory
A person 亻 standing under a roof 宀: someone planted in one spot, waiting and watching for a long time.
The roof element 宀 sits over a base stroke. Historically the right side depicted a place of accumulation; together with the roof it gives the sense of someone halting and lingering under cover, rooted to the spot.
The bottom horizontal closes off the structure beneath the roof, marking a fixed ground line - the place where the figure stands still rather than moving on.
