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等到

děng dào 3–4

to wait until; by the time when (sth is ready etc)

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
等 · 到
Syllables
2
děng dào
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 4,305

Part of speech: v

Character by character

  • 等děng12 strokesHSK 1rank, grade; to wait; equal, “and so forth”
  • 到dào8 strokesHSK 1go to, arrive, been to

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Words with the same characters

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