等
děng HSK1

rank

等 děng
wait verb
to wait for or await

请在门口等我一下。

qǐng zài mén​kǒu děng wǒ yī​xià.

Please wait for me at the door for a moment.

when verb
by the time; when; until

等他回来，我们就出发。

děng tā huí​lai, wǒ​men jiù chū​fā.

We'll set off as soon as he returns.

and so on particle
used to end an enumeration; et cetera or et al.

书架上有书、笔、纸等物品。

shū​jià shàng yǒu shū, bǐ, zhǐ děng wù​pǐn.

There are items such as books, pens, and paper on the bookshelf.

rank noun
a class, rank, or grade

我们的产品质量属于一等。

wǒ​men de chǎn​pǐn zhì​liàng shǔ​yú yī děng.

The quality of our products is first-class.

plural marker verb
a literary plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun

我等必将竭尽全力。

wǒ děng bì jiāng jié​jìn​quán​lì.

We shall do our utmost.

equal verb
equal to or the same as

这两个三角形的面积相等。

zhè liǎng gè sān​jiǎo​xíng de miàn​jī xiāng děng.

The areas of these two triangles are equal.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)