等

HSK 2#83 by frequencyradical ⺮

děng["v","u"]

to wait for; to await; et cetera; and so on; et al. (and other authors); class; rank; grade; equal to; same as; after; as soon as; once

Examples

等你。

I'll wait for you.

等一下！

Hang 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.