应 · yīng
should, ought to, must
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
should, ought to, must
- Mandarin
- yīng
- Cantonese
- jing3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5E94
- Radical
- 广 · 53
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 应
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- yīng
- kCantonese
- jing3
- kDefinition
- should, ought to, must
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 53.4
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+5E94 U+61C9
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+5E94
- kTGH
- 2013:836
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- yīng 1383.050 · yìng 1388.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- yīng 438.150 · yìng 440.150
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- yīng(1045) yìng(400) ying(213)