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(jiāng) - will, going to (future marker) in Mandarin

jiāng

Traditional: 將

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Translation

will, going to (future marker)

Word origin

将 (jiāng) here marks future 'will, going to'. It is the simplified form of 將; the character originally related to holding or leading (a hand element with 爿 qiáng as phonetic) and also reads jiàng for 'general'.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
将 (simplified from 將: 爿 qiáng phonetic + 寸 hand element)

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Examples

He will come to my home.

We will work together.

The future will be better.

The match will begin tomorrow.

He will become the new manager.

将 (jiāng) means will, going to (future marker). It is used as a adverb in everyday Mandarin speech.

Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 将.

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