(dá) - to answer; to reply in Mandarin
dáTraditional: 答
#5129 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
to answer; to reply
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the bamboo radical 竹 recalls the bamboo slips once used for written replies, and 合 (hé) supplies the sound, giving the meaning to answer or reply.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 竹 (bamboo radical) + 合 (hé, phonetic)
Stroke order
答
Examples
。
Please answer my question.
。
He promised to come and help tomorrow.
。
She didn't reply.
，。
The teacher asks, the students answer.
。
He answered very clearly.
答 (dá) means to answer or reply, central to 回答 (huí dá) "to answer" and, as dā, to 答应 (dā ying) "to agree".
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 答.
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