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(děng) - to wait, to wait for in Mandarin

děng

Traditional: 等

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Translation

to wait, to wait for

Word origin

等 has the 竹 (bamboo) radical and 寺 (sì, office, temple) beneath it. It originally referred to bamboo slips of equal length used in record offices, hence 'equal, rank, class', and by extension 'to wait' and 'et cetera'.

Origin
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Root
竹 (zhú, bamboo) + 寺 (sì, office)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 等

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Examples

。

Please wait a moment.

。

I am waiting for you.

，。

No need to wait - he is not coming.

。

I have waited for you an hour.

口kǒu。

Please wait at the door for a moment.

等 (děng) means to wait, to wait for. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 等.

等等děng děngwait a moment, et cetera等待děng dàito wait, to await等到děng dàowait until, by the time

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This word is part of lesson 3.