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

(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.

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