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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

等同

děngtóng

to equate

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to equate

02

equal to

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 等同 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 等同 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

毕业就等同於失业。bì yè jiù děng tóng yú shī yè。

Graduating is like losing your job.

他认为财富和幸福是等同的。tā rèn wéi cái fù hé xìng fú shì děng tóng de。

He equates wealth with happiness.

很多人把成功和拥有很多钱等同起来。hěn duō rén bǎ chéng gōng hé yōng yǒu hěn duō qián děng tóng qǐ lái。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 等同.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 等同.

Directly before

  • 钱等同1
  • 就等同1
  • 是等同1

Directly after

  • 等同起来1
  • 等同於1
  • 等同的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 等同

What does 等同 mean in Chinese?

等同 (děngtóng) means to equate.

How do you pronounce 等同?

等同 is pronounced děngtóng.

Is 等同 an HSK word?

等同 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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