应yīng
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应
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Shuowen
应. The character combines the roof radical 广 with the phonetic 雁, indicating a response or echo; in oracle bone script it appears as a person (亻) with an open mouth (口) under a roof, signifying 'to answer'.
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yīng· HSK 1