当 - Mandarin word #132

当

dāng

Traditional: 當

HSK 3

#132 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

when, at the time of, to serve as

Stroke order

当

。

When I was young.

辛xīn。

Being a teacher is hard.

。

At the time I did not know.

。

He wants to become a doctor.

，。

When I got home, it was dark.

当 (dāng) means when, at the time of, to serve as. It is used as a preposition in everyday Mandarin speech.

年

year, annual

然后

then, after that, afterwards

时候

time, moment, period

一直

always, continuously, all along

之前

before, prior to

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 当.

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This word is part of lesson 3.