答覆

Chinese

		reply; answer; return reply; answer; return; respond; echo; to answer; agree	to cover; to overflow; to reply to a letter to cover; to overflow; to reply to a letter; to overturn; to capsize
trad. (答覆/答復)		答	覆/復
simp. (答复/答覆)		答	复/覆

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dáfù

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˊ ㄈㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daap³ fuk¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tap-hok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dáfù → dáfu (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˊ ㄈㄨˋ → ㄉㄚˊ ˙ㄈㄨ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dáfů
    • Wade–Giles: ta²-fu⁵
    • Yale: dá-fu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dar.fuh
    • Palladius: дафу (dafu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä³⁵ fu⁵¹/ → /tä³⁵ fu³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daap³ fuk¹
    • Yale: daap fūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daap⁸ fuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: dab³ fug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːp̚³ fʊk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tap-hok
    • Tâi-lô: tap-hok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dap'hog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tap̚³²⁻⁴ hɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tap̚⁵⁻²⁴ hɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tap̚³²⁻⁵ hɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tap̚³²⁻⁴ hɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tap̚³²⁻⁴ hɔk̚³²/

Verb

答覆

1. to reply; to respond

   你不要這麼匆忙地就答覆我，你要好好想一想。 [MSC, trad.]
   你不要这么匆忙地就答覆我，你要好好想一想。 [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ bùyào zhème cōngmáng de jiù dáfù wǒ, nǐ yào hǎohǎo xiǎng yī xiǎng. [Pinyin]

   Don't be in such a hurry to respond to me — you have to think about it.

Noun

答覆

1. reply; response

Usage notes

In Mainland China, use of the form 答覆 is discouraged by the The First Series of Standardized Forms of Words with Non-standardized Variant Forms (《第一批异形词整理表》) and proscribed by Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》).

Synonyms

• 回答 (huídá)
• 回覆 (huífù)