期待 qīdài▶ esperar

Stroke order

期待 is written in 21 strokes across 2 characters.

• 期 — 12 strokes
• 待 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. to look forward to
2. to await
3. expectation

Related words

• 对待tratar
• 待遇tratamiento
• 招待Entretener
• 接待recepción
• 日期Fecha; Cita
• 时期período

期待 is pronounced qīdài and means “esperar”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 期待 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.