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等

děng

rank

Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 寺 represents the sound.

Components
⺮ meaning component

⺮  Meaning component

zhú

  

bamboo

⺮ is a component form of 竹. Alludes to an orderly arrangement of writings on bamboo strips.

寺 sound component

寺  Sound component

sì

  

temple

Evolution

等 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
等 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
等 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

等  

děng

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

Most common words with 等
Freq.
Word
Meaning

等

class

等等

et cetera

等待

to wait

等于

to equal

等到

to wait until

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tˤəŋʔ

tongX

děng

step, grade


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 98.9588% of movies

117th most common character in movies

158th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7B49

Shuowen

“等，齊簡也。从竹，从寺。寺，官曹之等平也。”


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