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Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 寺 represents the sound.
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等 (děng) is a phono-semantic compound with the semantic radical 竹 (zhú, "bamboo") at the top and the phonetic component 寺 (sì, "temple") at the bottom. The bamboo radical indicates the original meaning: bamboo tallies used by officials to sort and classify people or items into ranks. From this sense of systematic ordering, the meaning extended to "equal" or "same level", and later developed into the common verb "to wait", as well as a particle meaning "and so on".
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请等我一下
我们在等朋友
他等了三小时
等等别着急
我需要笔纸等等
耐心等待机会
如果你等不及可以先离开
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