应
yìngTraditional: 应
#5087 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
should; to respond (bound morpheme)
Stroke order
应
Examples
。
You should go to bed earlier.
搬。
He agreed to help me move house.
尊。
We should respect the elderly.
。
He stood up in response to the call.
。
I should go home a bit earlier.
应 has two readings: yīng for ought to, surfacing in the modal 应该, and yìng for to respond, as in 答应 (to agree). The 'should' reading is the one beginners meet first.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 应.
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