Kanji1 / 7
応 kanji
apply, answer, yes, OK, reply, accept
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
オウヨウ-ノウ
Kun readings
あたるまさにこたえる
Variant forms
應Words with 応
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —応agreement; affirmative; aye; yes; OK; okay; yeah; all right
- —応oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!; yes!; okay!
- —応戦fighting back; returning fire; counter-attack; responding to an attack; accepting a challenge
- —応諾consent; compliance
- —応報retribution
- —応力stress
- —饗応entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining
- —即応compliance; conformance; adaptation; (immediate) response; (rapid) reaction
- —内応secret understanding; collusion; betrayal
- —否応yes or no answer; agreement or disagreement; consent or refusal
- —応手(primarily in shogi or go) response; countermeasure; counter-measure
- —応変appropriate (urgent) response; expediency
- —応訴countersuit
- —応需responding to a demand; answering a request
- —照応correspondence; being in accordance with; anaphora
- —策応collusion; concert
- —天応Ten'ō era (781.1.1-782.8.19)
- —応和Ōwa era (961.2.16-964.7.10)
- —応徳Ōtoku era (1084.2.7-1087.4.7)
- —応保Ōhō era (1161.9.4-1163.3.29)