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反应

fǎn yìng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 反應 Measure word 个

反应 (fǎn yìng) means "to react; a reaction". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 反应 means

1. to react
2. to respond
3. reaction
4. response
5. reply
6. chemical reaction

The characters in 反应

• 反fǎncontrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down
• 应yīngto agree (to do sth); should; ought to

Example sentences

• 她反应很快。
  She has a very quick mind.
• 看看反应如何。
  Let's see what the reaction is.
• 我反应过度了吗？
  Wǒ fǎnyìng guòdù le ma?
  Am I overreacting?
• 汤姆惊讶得没有反应。
  Tom was too surprised to react.
• 汤姆是最先作出反应的。
  Tom was the first to react.
• 如水流过鸭背般毫无反应。
  Rú shuǐ liúguò yābèi bān háowú fǎnyìng.
  It's like water on a duck's back.

Words starting with 反应

• 反应式fǎn yìng shìequation of a chemical reaction
• 反应时fǎn yìng shíresponse time
• 反应时间fǎn yìng shí jiān(technology) response time
• 反应炉fǎn yìng lú(nuclear etc) reactor
• 反应堆fǎn yìng duīreactor
• 反应堆芯fǎn yìng duī xīnreactor core
• 反应锅fǎn yìng guō(chemical engineering) reaction vessel; reaction tank

Words containing 反应

• 化学反应huà xué fǎn yìngchemical reaction
• 连锁反应lián suǒ fǎn yìng(physics) chain reaction; (idiom) chain reaction; series of events each caused by the…
• 条件反应tiáo jiàn fǎn yìngconditioned response
• 高原反应gāo yuán fǎn yìngaltitude sickness
• 生物反应器shēng wù fǎn yìng qìbioreactor
• 复分解反应fù fēn jiě fǎn yìngmetathesis (chemistry)
• 核反应hé fǎn yìngnuclear reaction
• 放热反应fàng rè fǎn yìngexothermic reaction
• 积极反应jī jí fǎn yìngactive response; energetic response
• 变态反应biàn tài fǎn yìngallergic response; allergy
• 应激反应yìng jī fǎn yìng(physiological etc) stress
• 链式反应liàn shì fǎn yìngchain reaction
• 聚变反应jù biàn fǎn yìngnuclear fusion
• 热核聚变反应rè hé jù biàn fǎn yìngthermonuclear fusion reaction
• 超敏反应chāo mǐn fǎn yìnghypersensitivity
• 过敏反应guò mǐn fǎn yìngallergic reaction
• 核连锁反应hé lián suǒ fǎn yìngnuclear chain reaction
• 过敏性反应guò mǐn xìng fǎn yìngallergic reaction; hypersensitive reaction; anaphylaxis
• 偶联反应ǒu lián fǎn yìngchain reaction (chemistry)
• 链式裂变反应liàn shì liè biàn fǎn yìngchain reaction of nuclear fission
• 免疫反应miǎn yì fǎn yìngimmune response
• 核反应堆hé fǎn yìng duīnuclear reactor
• 动力反应堆dòng lì fǎn yìng duīpower reactor
• 原子反应堆yuán zǐ fǎn yìng duīatomic reactor

Sounds the same

Read fǎn yìng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 反映to mirror; to reflect; mirror image

Where 反应 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Argumentation, Debate & Criticism (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fǎn yìng correctly.
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