应 and tones

[歐博思]

For what usage does 应 have what tone? For instance, NCIKU lists 'reply' as both 4 and 1. Other words seem to have more clearcut usage as regards to tone and word function 钻 1st tone 'to drill' 4th tone 'diamond' etc.

[firstmatelaoniu]

1st tone means"should"

for example: you should do homework 你应(1st tone)该做作业

4st tone means a Verb,like 应验, means something is happened as you expect.

for example: see, thing is happened ,just what i say.

看,事情应验了,就像我说的.

[LaoJian]

应

ying1

1. Answer/reply/respond. 应答

2. family name（姓）, if you know Chinese 百家姓

3. should 应该

4. promise to do sth 应允，应许，应准

ying4

1. Answer/reply/respond. 应答（both 1 and 4），答应, 回应，响应， 应敌

2. sth comes true; be confirmed; 应验， 感应

3. comfort to,submit to, comply with 顺应， 顺应天意

4. deal with 应付

above is a summary just what I know about usage of 应, notice one thing, I think for meaning of 'answer,reply', tone 4 are still very common in Chinese, and in total for '应', tone 4 is also more popular to be used.

Hope this can help you, if you understand, just '回应一声'

[ilovelanguage]

Very informative - Just would like to say thanks to LAOJIAN , for sharing

[roddy]

Are you sure about

ying1

1. Answer/reply/respond. 应答

I have more than one dictionary giving yìng.

[LaoJian]

Yes, what I remember and a popular way of Chinese people using is ying4 for '应答', but for double check, so I look up again from here - http://hanyu.iciba.com/wiki/227262.shtml#1(iciba is famous website for en-cn/cn-en translation site in China), refer to '汉语词典', it said this is applied for both tone 1 and 4. :o

[jbradfor]

FWIW, TW MOE dictionary only gives 4th tone for 應答.

效應 is another use of 应, also 4th tone.

. family name（姓）, if you know Chinese 百家姓

I don't follow. How is 应 related to 姓?

Last, small warning. nciku is known for having some errors, especially in cases such as these in which there is a very subtle difference. For these types of questions, I would recommend a more professionally done dictionary, e.g. TW MOE (although that defines the Taiwan standard, not the mainland standard), or a good paper dictionary.

[creamyhorror]

I don't follow. How is 应 related to 姓?

Meaning that 应 ying1 is a family name (姓).

[Glenn]

There's always 百度词典 for the mainland standard.

[Michaelyus]

E.g. 應昌期 of the Ing Cup.

[imron]

There's always 百度词典 for the mainland standard.

Ugh. Doesn't even have pronunciation. Please see the 《现代汉语词典》for the mainland standard.

Regarding 应，don't forget there's also 答应 in which 应 is pronounced with the neutral tone (at least in regular speech anyway ).

Edit: Seem it does have pronunciation, it was just taking a while to load it