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应

yīng, yìng

should

Simplified form of 應. Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 䧹 represents the sound.

Components
心 meaning,simplified component

心  Meaning Simplified component

xīn

  

heart

䧹 sound,simplified component

䧹  Sound Simplified component

yīng

  

eagle

Evolution

应 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
应 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
应 Simplified script Modern

Simplified 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 应
Freq.
Word
Meaning

应该

ought to

应

should

反应

to react

应用

to use

答应

to answer

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 98.3181% of movies

162nd most common character in movies

144th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

應

Unicode

U+5E94


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