響

xiǎng

make sound; noise; resonance; influence

Meaning

  • Literal production of sound or noise.
  • Resonance and echo: sounds that carry, fill a space, or reverberate (e.g., bells). This implies an acoustic response to an initial sound.
  • Metaphorical repercussion: the ripple effect or far-reaching influence of an action, person, or event (as seen in the later compound 影響).

Grammar and usage

  • Noun: The sound, echo, or resulting influence/repercussion.
  • Verb: To resound or make a noise; primarily intransitive. Translator should check for rare transitive usage.

History and forms

Simplified variant: 响 (U+54CD).

Translator notes

In cursive or hurried scripts, this glyph may be visually similar to 鄉 (village/countryside). If the context of "village" is incoherent, consider if the glyph is actually 響.

Decontextualized translator aid. This page describes plausible lexical range; it does not choose what the glyph means in a particular passage.