答 (dā / dá) means Answer. Below are 24 of the 52 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他 答 应帮我搬家。
Tā dāying bāng wǒ bān jiā.
He agreed to help me move house.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 答应
他 答 应得很爽快。
Tā dāying de hěn shuǎngkuài.
He agreed without hesitation.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 爽快
他站起来回 答 问题。
Tā zhàn qǐlai huídá wèntí.
He stood up to answer the question.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 起来
这道题的 答 案是什么？
Zhè dào tí de dá'àn shì shénme?
What is the answer to this question?
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 答案
请把 答 案写在表格里。
Qǐng bǎ dá'àn xiě zài biǎogé lǐ.
Please write the answer in the form.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 答案
请用普通话回 答 问题。
Qǐng yòng pǔtōnghuà huídá wèntí.
Please answer the question in Mandarin.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 普通话
孩子们抢着回 答 问题。
Háizimen qiǎng zhe huídá wèntí.
The children vie to answer the question.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 抢
这件事不能轻易 答 应。
Zhè jiàn shì bù néng qīngyì dāying.
You should not agree to this lightly.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 轻易
他犹豫了一下才回 答 。
Tā yóuyù le yíxià cái huídá.
He hesitated before answering.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 犹豫
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From the graded readers
我当时没有回 答 。
wǒ dāngshí méiyǒu huídá.
I didn't answer at the time.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
前面的问题我都回 答 得不错。
qiánmian de / dì wèntí wǒ dōu huídá dé / děi / de búcuò.
I answered the first questions well enough.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
我犹豫了很久，最后还是 答 应了。
wǒ yóuyù le / liǎo / liào hěn jiǔ, zuìhòu háishì dāying le / liǎo / liào.
I hesitated a long time, and agreed anyway.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
答 应得越多，别人越觉得那是应该的。
dāying dé / děi / de yuè duō, biérén yuè juéde nàshì yīnggāi de / dì.
The more I agreed to, the more it was simply expected.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
我们问她问题的时候，她从来不马上回 答 。
wǒmen wèn tā wèntí de / dì shíhou, tā cónglái bù mǎshàng huídá.
When we ask her a question, she never answers straight away.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
同事让我帮忙，我 答 应；朋友借钱，我 答 应；周末有活动，我也 答 应。
tóngshì ràng wǒ bāngmáng, wǒ dāying; péngyou jiè qián, wǒ dāying; zhōumò yǒu huódòng, wǒ yě dāying.
A colleague asked for help, I agreed; a friend wanted to borrow money, I agreed; something was on at the weekend, I agreed to that too.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Learning to Say No
From the travel phrasebook
什么时候能 答 复我？
Shénme shíhou néng dáfù wǒ?
When can you come back to me?
Travel phrasebook · Quality problems and claims
请给我一个书面 答 复。
Qǐng gěi wǒ yí ge shūmiàn dáfù.
Please give me a written reply.
Travel phrasebook · Quality problems and claims
答 appears in 52 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 答
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Questions about 答
How is 答 used in a sentence?
This page shows 52 sentences using 答 (dā / dá, "Answer"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 答 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 答 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 答?
The dictionary page for 答 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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