等
děng HSK1

rank

等 děng
to wait verb
to wait; to wait for; to await

我们不能永远地等他。

wǒ​men bù​néng yǒng​yuǎn de děng tā.

We can't wait for him forever.

你可以坐在车里等着。

nǐ kě​yǐ zuò zài chē li děng zhe.

You can sit in your car and wait.

equal adjective
(bound form) equal to; same as
when prepositionadverb
by the time; when; used to mark a point in time when something occurs

等你回来我们再谈。

děng nǐ huí lai wǒ​men zài tán.

We'll talk when you get back.

等我长大后，我会是一个妈妈。

děng wǒ zhǎng dà hòu, wǒ huì shì yī​ge mā​ma.

When I grow up, I will be a mother.

and so on particleconjunction
used after an enumeration to indicate it is incomplete; etc.
class nounadjective
(bound form) class; rank; grade; level
kind
(bound form) kind; type; sort
[plural]
(literary) plural marker used after pronouns or nouns referring to people
small steelyard
small steelyard for weighing precious metals or medicines (now usually written 戥 děng)
surname
Chinese surname
[summary marker]
used after a list of items to conclude the enumeration, often followed by a total count

Cross-References

Synonym

Frequency
Character
Written text
158th most common 1376.2 per million
Movie subtitles
117th most common 1519.7 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1014.0 per million appears in 95% of films
Written text
1926.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+7B49

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)