Chinese symbol for “deserve”
应有
yīng yǒu
Traditional: 應有
to deserve (attention, respect etc); should have (freedoms, rights etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for deserve is 应有 (yīng yǒu), defined as: to deserve (attention, respect etc); should have (freedoms, rights etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “deserve”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 应得 (應得) | yīng dé | to deserve |
| 该 (該) | gāi | should; ought to |
| 配 | pèi | to join; to fit |
| 值得 | zhí de | worth the money; to merit; to deserve; to be worth (doing sth) |
| 该当 (該當) | gāi dāng | should; to deserve |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 应有.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 应该 (應該) | yīng gāi | ought to; should; must |
| 应用 (應用) | yìng yòng | to put to use; to apply; practical; applied (science, linguistics etc) |
| 反应 (反應) | fǎn yìng | to react; to respond |
| 应当 (應當) | yīng dāng | should; ought to |
| 适应 (適應) | shì yìng | to adapt; to fit |
| 相应 (相應) | xiāng yìng | to correspond; answering (one another) |
| 没有 (沒有) | méi yǒu | haven't; hasn't |
| 所有 | suǒ yǒu | all; to have; to possess; to own |
See also: Japanese symbol for “deserve”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.