應 (yīng)
should/ought to/to respond
How 應 is written
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 广 — house on cliff
- Traditional
- 應
- Simplified
- 应
Components
- 广 house on cliff
- 亻 human
- 隹 small bird
- 心 heart
應 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- yìng
- surname Ying
- yīng
- to agree (to do sth); should; ought to
Common words using 應
- 一呼百應 yīhūbǎiyìng
- a hundred answers to a single call (idiom); to respond en masse
- 反應 fǎnyìng
- to react; to respond; reaction
- 應用 yìngyòng
- to use; to apply; application
- 應該 yīnggāi
- ought to; should; must
- 答應 dāying
- to promise; to agree; to reply
- 適應 shìyìng
- to adapt; to fit; to suit
- 供應 gōngyìng
- to supply; to provide; to offer
- 供應商 gōngyìngshāng
- supplier
- 呼應 hūyìng
- echoed; echo
- 回應 huíyìng
- to respond; response
- 報應 bàoyìng
- retribution; judgment
- 對應 duìyìng
- to correspond; a correspondence; corresponding
應 in a sentence
你應該早點回家休息。
Nǐ yīnggāi zǎodiǎn huíjiā xiūxí.
“You should go home early to rest.”
How common is 應?
應 is the 144th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 48.9% of all running text.
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