将

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HSK 4#28 by frequencyradical 丬

jiāng["d","p","g"]

will; shall; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把); to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago

jiàng

(bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)

qiāng

to desire; to invite; to request

Examples

他将要睡觉。

He'll be asleep.

你将穿哪双鞋？

Which shoes are you going to put on?

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.