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应得

yīng dé

2-character word Traditional 應得

What 应得 means

1. to deserve

The characters in 应得

• 应yīngto agree (to do sth); should; ought to
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…

Example sentences

• 我说你应得的。
  Wǒ shuō nǐ yīngdé de.
  I'd say you earned it.
• 她得到了应得的。
  Tā dédào le yīngdé de.
  She got what she deserved.
• 这是他们应得的。
  They deserve it.
• 你的成功是应得的。
  Nǐ de chénggōng shì yīngdé de.
  You deserve to succeed.

Words containing 应得

• 得所应得dé suǒ yīng déto get what one deserves
• 罪有应得zuì yǒu yīng déguilty and deserves to be punished (idiom); entirely appropriate chastisement…
• 咎有应得jiù yǒu yīng dé(idiom) to deserve what one gets (punishment, mishap etc)

Sounds the same

Read yīng dé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 英德Anglo-German; England and Germany