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Mythic Mandarin

答 (dá): meaning and stroke order

答 (dá) means to answer, to reply, to respond.

答

Simplified
答
Traditional
答 (same form)
Pinyin
dá · dā

Stroke order of 答

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

Meaning of 答

  1. dá
    • to answer
    • to reply
    • to respond
  2. 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

Radical and structure

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

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.

Words with 答

答 in our stories

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  • 两个人答不上来。

    liǎng gè rén dá bú shànglai

    Neither of them could answer.

    From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5

Stories using 答

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).