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Mythic Mandarin

应 (yìng): meaning and stroke order

应 (yìng) means to answer, to respond, to comply with, to deal or cope with, to agree (to do sth), should.

应

Simplified
应
Traditional
應
Pinyin
yìng · yīng

Stroke order of 应

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 应

  1. yìng Traditional 應
    • to answer
    • to respond
    • to comply with
    • to deal or cope with
  2. yīng Traditional 應
    • to agree (to do sth)
    • should
    • ought to
    • must
    • (legal) shall
  3. Yīng Traditional 應
    • surname Ying
    • Taiwan pr. [Ying4]

Radical and structure

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.

Words with 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).