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Mandarin · pinyin yìng jiē

to attend to
to deal with

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應: yīng · should, ought to, must
接: jiē · receive; continue; catch; connect
应: yīng · should, ought to, must

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4–1 · ying4 jie1

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verb

(literary) to receive (a visitor); to admit (to allow somebody to enter)
(literary) to deal with; to cope with
(literary) to call and answer; to echo
(literary) to correspond; to match; to correlate

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