Promise in Chinese
to promise · HSK 4
答应
- 答 to answer
- 应 should
妈妈答应周末带我去公园。 Mom promised to take me to the park this weekend.
Other ways to say promise
More words with 答 or 应
How do you say promise in Chinese?
Promise in Chinese is 答应 (dā ying). You can also say 承诺 (chéng nuò), 约定 (yuē dìng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.