等待

Chinese

		class; rank; grade class; rank; grade; equal to; same as; wait for; await; et cetera; and so on	wait; treat; deal with wait; treat; deal with; need; about; intending to do something; stay; delay
trad. (等待)		等	待
simp. ^#(等待)		等	待

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): děngdài

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄥˇ ㄉㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dang² doi⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): tén-thai
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tán-thāi / tán-thǎi / téng-thāi

(Teochew, Peng'im): dêng² tai⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: děngdài
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄥˇ ㄉㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: děngdài
  - Wade–Giles: têng³-tai⁴
  - Yale: děng-dài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: deengday
  - Palladius: дэндай (dɛndaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɤŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ taɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dang² doi⁶
  - Yale: dáng doih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dang² doi⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: deng² doi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɐŋ³⁵ tɔːi̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: tén-thai
  - Hakka Romanization System: den` tai
  - Hagfa Pinyim: den³ tai⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /ten³¹ tʰai̯⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tán-thāi
  - Tâi-lô: tán-thāi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dafntai
  - IPA (Taipei): /tan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰai³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰai²²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tan⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tʰai³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tán-thǎi
  - Tâi-lô: tán-thǎi
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tʰai²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: téng-thāi
  - Tâi-lô: tíng-thāi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: defngtai
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰai²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: dêng² tai⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: téng thăi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /teŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ tʰai³⁵/

Verb

等待

to wait; to await

Synonyms

伺候
佇候 (zhùhòu) (literary)
候等 (Hokkien)
守候 (shǒuhòu)
留住 (liúzhù) (literary)
當等／当等 (Xiamen Hokkien)
等 (děng)
等候 (děnghòu)
聽候／听候 (tīnghòu) (literary, or Min Nan)

Derived terms

呼叫等待 (hūjiào děngdài)

Related terms

有待 (yǒudài)