等

See also 朩

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic ⺮ (“bamboo”) + phonetic 寺

竹 here refers to the bamboo strips used for writing (e.g. grading, classification) in ancient times. 寺 was originally used phonetically; the character was subsequently borrowed for another word with the same meaning, but with no phonetic resemblance to 寺.

Han character

等 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹土木戈 (HGDI), four-corner 8834₁, composition ⿱⺮寺)

1. rank, grade
2. equal
3. 'etc.'
4. wait　(except Japanese)

References

• KangXi: page 882, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25992
• Dae Jaweon: page 1311, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2962, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7B49

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Cantonese

Hanzi

等 (Yale dang2)

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Japanese

Kanji

等 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: ひとしい (hitoshii), など (nado), ら (ra)

Compounds

• 劣等 (れっとう, rettō, “inferior”)

Adverb

等 (hiragana とう, romaji tō)

1. et cetera

Suffix

等 (hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

1. rank, class, order
2. et cetera, and so on

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Korean

Hanja

等
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 등 (revised: deung, McCune-Reischauer: tŭng, Yale: tung)

• Name (hangeul): 무리등 (Yale: mulitung)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

等 (pinyin děng (deng3), qián (qian2), Wade-Giles teng³, ch'ien²)

Compounds

• 等離子體

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Vietnamese

Han character

等 (đẳng, đấng, đứng)