等
Meanings
- to wait for; to await
- by the time; when; till
- and so on; etc.; et al.
- (bound form) class; rank; grade
- (bound form) equal to; same as
- (used to end an enumeration)
- (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
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- 等
- děng · rank, grade; to wait; equal, “and so forth”
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3 · deng3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
dang2
Cantonese word readings for 等. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to arrange bamboo slips neatly
- rank; grade; class
- sort; kind; type
- (Chinese phonetics) one of the "divisions" of a rime table, encoding some phonological distinction; see Middle Chinese finals on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (in compounds or after a number/degree) equal; equivalent
- and the like; and so on; etc.; et al.
- Particle indicating the ending of enumeration.
- (literary or Hakka) Plural particle used after personal pronouns or nouns.
- a surname
character · Etymology 2
- to wait (for)
- when (something happens at a point in time in the future)
- (Cantonese) to be in need of
- (Cantonese, Xiang) to let; to allow; to permit
- (Cantonese) to let (used to give notice to something in the future)
- (Cantonese) to cause; to make
- (Cantonese) Introduces a clause that expresses negative surprise.
- (Gan) by
- (Hakka) Progressive particle, used after verbs to indicate the continuation of an action or a state.
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