(jiāng) - will, going to (future marker) in Mandarin
jiāngTraditional: 將
HSK 4
#140 of 5,000 Core 1000
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)
Stroke order
将
Examples
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He will come to my home.
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We will work together.
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The future will be better.
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The match will begin tomorrow.
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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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