等 (děng)
to wait; class; rank; et cetera
How 等 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Traditional
- 等
- Simplified
- 等 (unchanged)
Components
- ⺮ bamboo
- 土 earth
- 寸 thumb
Common words using 等
- 平等 píngděng
- equal; equality
- 等到 děngdào
- to wait until; by the time when (sth is ready etc)
- 等待 děngdài
- to wait; to wait for
- 等於 děngyú
- to equal; to be tantamount to
- 等等 děngděng
- etcetera; and so on ...; wait a minute!
- 等級 děngjí
- grade; rank; status
- 上等 shàngděng
- highest quality; top-notch
- 上等兵 shàngděngbīng
- private first class (army rank)
- 不平等 bùpíngděng
- inequality; unfairness
- 不等 bùděng
- to vary; to differ; inequality
- 不等式 bùděngshì
- inequality (math.)
- 不等於 bùděngyú
- not equal to ≠
等 in a sentence
請在這邊稍等一下，我馬上回來。
Qǐng zài zhèbiān shāoděng yīxià, wǒ mǎshàng huílái.
“Please wait here for a moment; I'll be right back.”
How common is 等?
等 is the 158th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 50.9% of all running text.
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