To Respond or to React

To Respond or to React

ō-jiru, kota-eru, ō (nō)

Both ōjiru and kotaeru means to respond. When can we use these words? When somebody responds in the sense of “ōjiru” or “kotaeru,” they accommodate your request.

The character itself often implies “to react to something.” Application is ōyō. It suggests the word includes the process of reacting and using. Reaction is hannō. The nō of hannō is also today’s character. In chemistry, chemical reaction is “ka gaku hannō.” Applied science is “ōyō ka gaku.”

Taiō is correspondence but the ōtai, which has the same characters in a different order, means reception. Since ōtai refers to how a company deals with customers, it is sometimes criticized.

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1. Draw the dot on the top.
2. Draw the horizontal stroke.
3. Draw the sweeping stroke to the left.
4. Draw the dot next to the previous stroke.
5. Draw the curve with an upward turn.
6. Strike the dot above the curve and make it head to the next dot.
7. Draw the dot under the right end of the horizontal stroke.