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迎合

yínghé

to cater to; to pander to

A person in red bows deeply, dropping a green book behind them
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Characters in this word

迎 yíng

Strokes
7
Radical
辶 — to walk
Made of
辶 to walk 卬 lofty
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 迎

合 hé

Strokes
6
Radical
口 — mouth
Made of
亼 to assemble, to gather together 口 mouth

Example phrases

  • 作品若一味迎合市场,往往会牺牲原本的思想锋芒。 Zuòpǐn ruò yīwèi yínghé shìchǎng, wǎngwǎng huì xīshēng yuánběn de sīxiǎng fēngmáng. If a work blindly caters to the market, it often sacrifices its original intellectual edge.
  • 他为了讨好顾客,不惜迎合各种无理要求。 Tā wèile tǎohǎo gùkè, bùxī yínghé gèzhǒng wúlǐ yāoqiú. To please his customers, he does not hesitate to cater to all kinds of unreasonable demands.
  • 他从来不迎合别人的想法,总是实话实说。 Tā cónglái bù yínghé biérén de xiǎngfǎ, zǒngshì shíhuà shíshuō. He never panders to other people's ideas and always tells it like it is.

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