surname Ying / Taiwan pr. [Ying4]
to agree (to do sth) / should / ought to / must / (legal) shall
to answer / to respond / to comply with / to deal or cope with

= 广 + + : Mnemonic symbol: from 应龙, responsive dragon. The responsive dragon knows every answer to every quiz question ever asked.

= 广 + + : Maud Younger and the responsive dragon want to peacefully take over engine: They skydive into engine's bathroom using two parachutes. On top of it, Maud Younger plays a flute, and the responsive dragon is waving with a daisy responding to the rhythm of the music.

应 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
small / tiny / few / young

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).
"house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc
surname Guang

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
wide / numerous / to spread

广 = + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: catnip, because it somehow looks like a growing plant.

Characters with 应 as component

应 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 应

to supply / to provide / to offer
abbr. for 侍應生|侍应生[shi4 ying4 sheng1]
with everything needed available
a hundred answers to a single call (idiom) / to respond en masse
(idiom) to deal with varying circumstances by adhering to a basic principle
(math.) distance-preserving correspondence / conformal map
refractory period (physiology)
He Yingqin (1890-1987), senior Guomindang general

Sentences with 应

da̅
ying
ǎn
lǎo
su̅n
zhè
gè
che̅ng
hào
便
biàn
ba