Chinese symbol for “reply”
回答
huí dá
to reply; to answer; reply; answer
The closest CC-CEDICT match for reply is 回答 (huí dá), defined as: to reply; to answer; reply; answer.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “reply”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 回覆 | huí fù | to reply (by letter, email etc); reply; answer |
| 回信 | huí xìn | to reply; to write back |
| 答辩 (答辯) | dá biàn | to reply (to an accusation); to defend one's dissertation |
| 应答 (應答) | yìng dá | to reply |
| 回话 (回話) | huí huà | to reply |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 回答.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 回来 (回來) | huí lai | to return; to come back |
| 回到 | huí dào | to return to |
| 回家 | huí jiā | to return home |
| 回应 (回應) | huí yìng | to respond; response |
| 回去 | huí qu | to return; to go back |
| 答案 | dá àn | answer; solution |
| 答应 (答應) | dā ying | to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise |
| 解答 | jiě dá | to solve (a problem); to resolve (a difficulty) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “reply”.
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.