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應

yīng, yìng

should

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 䧹 represents the sound.

Components
心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

䧹 sound component

䧹  Sound component

yīng

  

eagle

Evolution

應 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
應 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
應 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
應 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

应 (應) 

yīng

should, ought to, must; to agree (to do sth); should; ought to; must; (legal) shall

应 (應) 

Yìng

surname Ying

应 (應) 

yìng

to answer; to respond; to comply with; to deal or cope with

Most common words with 應
Freq.
Word
Meaning

应该

ought to

应

should

反应

to react

应用

to use

答应

to answer

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[q](r)əŋ

'ing

yīng

ought


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 98.3181% of movies

162nd most common character in movies

144th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

应

Unicode

U+61C9

Shuowen

“應，當也。从心，聲。”


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