音読み: キョウ
訓読み: ひびく
画数: 20
部首: 音（おと）
Meaning
Echo / Sound / Resonate / Influence
- 響く — to echo / resound
- 響き — resonance / timbre
- 反響 — echo / public reaction
- 音響 — acoustics / sound effects
- 影響 — influence / impact
響 combines the sound radical 音 with elements that suggest repetition and spread. Think of a sound that starts at one point and travels outward — first the sound, then an echo, and finally an influence that reaches people and things. That’s why it appears in words from pure acoustics (音響) to effects on people (影響).
Start from 音 — a single sound. Let it spread: it echoes（響く）and eventually creates an influence（影響）on people and things. Remember 響 as “sound that travels outward.”
Creates
影響 — influence / impact