当
Pinyin: dāng
to serve as
Example sentence
她想当翻译。
Tā xiǎng dāng fānyì.
She wants to be a translator.
What 当 means
当 (dāng) is a Chinese word meaning “to serve as”. It belongs to the Work, Study & Feelings topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.