应

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

Formation & memory

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Components 广⺍一

ought to · Heisig RSH #1432

cave + owl + floor

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
口不应心	kǒu bù yìng xīn	to say one thing but mean another; to dissimulate
一一对应	yī yī duì yìng	one-to-one correspondence
得心应手	dé xīn yìng shǒu	lit. what the heart wishes, the hand accomplishes (idiom) skilled at the job; entirely in …
化学反应	huà xué fǎn yìng	chemical reaction
应城市	Yìng chéng Shì	Yingcheng, a county-level city in Xiaogan City 孝感市[Xiao4 gan3 Shi4], Hubei
生物反应器	shēng wù fǎn yìng qì	bioreactor
应用数学	yìng yòng shù xué	applied mathematics
里应外合	lǐ yìng wài hé	to coordinate outside and inside offensives (idiom); (fig.) to act together
应县	Yìng Xiàn	Ying County or Yingxian, a county in Shuozhou City 朔州市[Shuo4 zhou1 Shi4], Shanxi
一应	yī yīng	all; every
一多对应	yī duō duì yìng	one-to-many correspondence
应市	yìng shì	to respond to the market; to buy or sell according to market conditions
应名儿	yīng míng r	erhua variant of 應名\|应名[ying1 ming2]
应用物理	yìng yòng wù lǐ	applied physics
应用科学	yìng yòng kē xué	applied science
应有	yīng yǒu	to deserve (attention, respect etc); should have (freedoms, rights etc)
应用平台	yìng yòng píng tái	application platform (computing)
应手	yìng shǒu	to handle; convenient
应分	yīng fèn	(of a course of action) within one's area of responsibility; expected of one; obligatory (…
应用文	yìng yòng wén	applied writing; writing for practical purposes (business letters, advertising etc)