待

• Temporal/Expectant: To wait for a person or event; a state of being unresolved or pending.
• Interpersonal/Behavioral: To receive, host, or entertain guests; the manner of conduct toward another.

• Transitive: Takes a direct object (the person awaited or treated).
• Intransitive: Describes a general state of waiting without a specified object.
• Conditional/Temporal Marker: When appearing at the head of a clause, it can function as "until" or "once," establishing a prerequisite for subsequent action.

• 待 vs. 代: These are phonetically similar and occasionally conflated in later manuscripts; if context suggests substitution or a generational era, consider the possibility of an orthographic slip for 代.
• Medical Contexts: In early texts, this glyph typically refers to "handling" or "tending to" rather than clinical treatment (which is more commonly rendered by 治 or 療).

• Fanqie reading: 徒亥

// Tang-period reading: //dhə̌i

• Functional Heuristic: Determine if the axis of the passage is temporal (waiting/until) or behavioral (treating/receiving). If the glyph initiates a phrase, prioritize the conditional "once/until" sense.