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答应 (dā ying): meaning and stroke order

答应 (dā ying) means to answer; to respond, to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise.

答应

Simplified
答应
Traditional
答應
Pinyin
dā ying

Stroke order of 答应

答

  • dā bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答[da2], used in 答應|答应[da1 ying5], 答理[da1 li5] etc
  • dá to answer; to reply
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

应

  • Yīng surname Ying; Taiwan pr. [Ying4]
  • yīng to agree (to do sth); should
  • yìng to answer; to respond
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 應

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 答应

  1. dā ying Traditional 答應
    • to answer; to respond
    • to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise

Radicals of the characters

答
Radical 竹 (Kangxi radical 118) · 12 strokes · 𥫗 on top, 合 below
应
Radical 广 (Kangxi radical 53) · 7 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

答应 in our stories

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  • 太宗答应帮忙,第二天特意拉魏征下了一整天的棋,不让他离开。

    Tàizōng dāying bāngmáng dì-èr tiān tèyì lā Wèi Zhēng xià le yì zhěngtiān de qí bú ràng tā líkāi

    Taizong agreed to help and the next day deliberately kept Wei Zheng playing chess all day so he could not leave.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 赵王不听。她只好又说:“大王一定要用他的话,万一他打了败仗,请不要连累我们全家。”赵王答应了。

    Zhào Wáng bù tīng tā zhǐhǎo yòu shuō dàwáng yídìng yào yòng tā dehuà wànyī tā dǎ le bàizhàng qǐng búyào liánlei wǒmen quánjiā Zhào Wáng dāying le

    The king would not listen. So she said: "If Your Majesty is determined to use him, then should he lose, please do not punish our whole family." The king agreed.

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 原来他的膝盖上个月就受了伤,医生劝他休息,可他早就答应了组委会,不想让跟着气球的人找不到方向。

    yuánlái tā de xīgài shàng gè yuè jiù shòu le shāng yīshēng quàn tā xiūxi kě tā zǎojiù dāying le zǔwěihuì bù xiǎng ràng gēn zhe qìqiú de rén zhǎo bú dào fāngxiàng

    It turned out he had hurt his knee the month before and the doctor had told him to rest, but he had long since promised the organisers and didn't want the runners following his balloon to lose their way.

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 答应

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).