答
dā
#559 most
frequent character
bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答[da2], used in 答應|答应[da1ying5], 答理[da1li5] etc
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
答 first meant a kind of small bean, written with 艹 vegetation and 合 hé, a sound part. The top later became 𥫗, now an empty part. The sense “to answer” was borrowed by sound alone; 合 itself once carried that sense. It then grew to “reciprocate”.
答 as a component in other characters
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