候 to provide services, to do someone, please …, please do …; waiting for something to appear, a symptom, sign, waiting five days; climate, weather, season; expecting a visit 侯,亻,丨,ユ,矢,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

コウ
KO　U

Kun-yomi

そうろう
so　u　ro　u

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

侯

コウ,× feudal lord, marquis; sexually transmissible infection, careless acts, oral gonorrhea

　PERSON PULLING DIRK, ARROW, DISEASED PENIS
　

亻

× person (male generally), rod head, head on rod

　THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL OR PERSON and VERTICAL, RECIPROCATING MOTION, ONE'S ROD, STALK OR STEM
　

丨

コン,シ,ジョ,ニョ,すす,しりぞ vertical, reciprocating motion vertically, rod stalk or stem while vertical

　TOP TO BOTTOM, BOTTOM TO TOP, UP-DOWN
　

ユ

× HTML entity: ユ pulled out of the normal shape

　ROLLED, ROLLING, BEING ROLLED, SECOND POSITION, 2ND IN A SEQUENCE and LATERAL MOTION
…or: EXTREME TENSION, STRESS WITH PAIN AND GASPS, TAUT, TIGHT, SPRING-LIKE ACTION and INDICATES THE WIDTH OR EXTENT OF ANOTHER ELEMENT, AN ARRAY OF ITEMS
　

矢

シ,や penetrating shaft with a head, arrow, to vow, to swear

　HEAD in HEAVEN
…or: PROSTRATE and BIG
…or: HEAD on SHAFT with LATERAL MOTION into PERSON
…or: one's HEAVENLY HEAD
　

Meanings of elements

MARQUIS with ROD inside RECIPROCATING MOTION
…or: ROD inside MARQUIS
…or: PERSON'S ROD and FLESH-PENETRATING SHAFT is PULLED TO ONE SIDE

「Marquis with rod inside」or「rod inside a marquis」or what is inside the「marquis' rod」as anyone in sleeping quarters near where the feudal lord sleeps and EXPECTING A VISIT, since that person was likely also ordered into the sleeping room at one time or another and schtupped (ejaculation into a birth canal or other attainable orifice…PLEASE DO!), but thereafter WAITING FOR SYMPTOMS TO APPEAR after contracting some disease from the lord, WAITING FIVE DAYS.
Any「person with rod pulled out of the normal shape having a diseased penis」can be WAITING FOR SYMPTOMS TO APPEAR, and would be EXPECTING A VISIT to the witchdoctor and from Death, eventually. Waiting five days might also be a change in the WEATHER or sometimes the SEASON. The seasons of that person's life were definitely changing from the fateful day forward, one way or another: at that stage of a doctor's visit, a request to PLEASE DO what is necessary in order to alleviate the symptoms and burning pain is not out of the ordinary:「Although most men never have symptoms of trichomoniasis, in women symptoms usually appear between 5 to 28 days after exposure. …Gonorrhea is frequently asymptomatic. When symptoms do appear they may show up as early as two days after exposure, or take as long as one month. …Although many people never have any [chlamydia] symptoms, when symptoms do appear it is usually one to three weeks after exposure to the bacteria.」And so on.
[ https://www.verywellhealth.com/how-long-before-std-symptoms-appear-3133026 2023-05-18 ]
Not likely, but some scholars have suggested the elements are depicting a person behind a barrier politely waiting to pull arrows out from a target that were discharged by a marquis…waiting five days? or until the seasons change?「discharges from a marquis」seems right, though.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to wait; to inquire after; to watch; season; climate; (old) period of five days
Japanese EDRDG: climate, season, weather, wait for, expect
Unihan extended: wait; expect; visit; greet

Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that), representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system! Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today. Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?

No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else. This site describes glyph meanings, not people. These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect. The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language? (More...) Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or could they have been worse?

By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon. This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.