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等děng候hòu

  1. to wait; to wait for

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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等
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

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)

Pinyin
děng
Strokes
12
Frequency
112 of 2500
Words starting with 等Words ending in 等Anywhere in a word
候
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to wait, to inquire after, to watch, season, climate, (old) period of five days

Pinyin
hòu
Strokes
10
Frequency
17903 of 2500
Words starting with 候Words ending in 候Anywhere in a word