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等一會兒 (dang2 jat1 wui6 ji4) — wait a moment; wait awhile | Cant.: 等一陣 | Syn.: 等一下; 稍等 in Cantonese

dangˊ²等jatˉ¹一wuiˍ₆會jiˎ₄兒
简 等一会儿
Mandarin Pinyin: deng3 yi1 huir4

Meaning of 等一會兒

nounwait a moment; wait awhile | Cant.: 等一陣 | Syn.: 等一下; 稍等

Characters in 等一會兒

等dang2; ting3
equal; same
一jat1
one; a; an; the
會wui5
meet with; see; receive (a guest)
兒ji4
final particle / suffix, placed after many commonly used nouns to avoid employing one-syllable terms in speech (very common in the Beijing dialect 北京話, see: 兒化, 兒化韻)

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