děng
rank
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 寺 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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
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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