应

應traditional

HSK 7–9#282 by frequencyradical 广

yìng["v"]

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

Yīng

surname Ying; Taiwan pr. [Ying4]; to agree (to do sth); should; ought to; must; (legal) shall

Examples

我答应了。

I promised.

你应该自己做。

You must do it yourself.

Part of the HSK 7–9 word list.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.