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HSK
to reply; to answer / reply; answer
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *回* | 回* | *回
to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *回* | 回* | *回
to curve / to return / to revolve
HSK 1
to return; to come back
HSK 1
to return to
HSK 1
to return home
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *回* | 回* | *回
variant of 迴|回
HSK 1
to return / to go back
HSK 1
to return to one's home country
HSK 2
to regain / to retake / to take back / to withdraw / to revoke
HSK 4
to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc) / variant of 回覆|回复
HSK 4
to return to / to come (or go) back
HSK 5
to recall / memories / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
(in) return / reciprocation / payback / retaliation / to report back / to reciprocate
HSK 5
to recycle / to reclaim / to retrieve / to recover / to recall (a defective product)
HSK 5
to look back / to review
HSK 5
to shun / to avoid (sb) / to skirt / to evade (an issue) / to step back / to withdraw / to recuse (a judge etc)
HSK 5
to turn round; to turn one's head / later; by and by
HSK 5
to reply / to write back / letter written in reply / CL:
HSK 5
variant of 迴避|回避
HSK 5
to respond / response
HSK 6
to make a round trip / return journey / back and forth / to and fro / repeatedly
HSK 7-9
to return to / to retreat / regression (statistics)
HSK 7-9
to turn around; to look back / (fig.) to recall the past
HSK 7-9
to retrieve / to redeem
HSK 7-9
to return (an item) / to send back / to go back
HSK 7-9
to call to mind and ponder over / aftertaste
HSK 7-9
to reject / to turn down / to overrule
HSK 7-9
brokerage / a commission paid to a middleman / euphemism for a bribe / a kickback
HSK 7-9
to repay a favor / to give back / feedback
HSK 7-9
to rise again after a fall / to pick up / rally (stock market etc)
HSK 7-9
memoir
HSK 7-9
one and the same (thing) / one thing (as distinct from another)
HSK 7-9
to recall / to recollect / to think back
HSK 7-9
to fall back / to return to low level after a rise (in water level, price etc)
HSK 7-9
the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom) / (of a mountain road) twisting and turning / fig. an opportunity has come unexpectedly / things have taken a new turn
HSK 7-9
(of sth that has been deformed) to spring back to original shape / (fig.) to rebound / to bounce back
(old) to report to one's master
to call sb back (on the phone) / a return call / to reply to a telegram / to wire back / a reply telegram
to look back at history
to retrieve
to turn a vehicle around / (computing) "carriage return" character / the "Enter" key / to hit the "Enter" key
Hui ethnic group (Chinese muslims)
callback (computing)
to reincarnate / reincarnation (Buddhism) / (of the seasons etc) to follow each other cyclically / cycle / CL: 個|个
to recall / to revoke / to retract
to rise from the dead (idiom); fig. an unexpected recovery
to flow back / reflux / circumfluence / refluence / backward flow / returning flow (e.g. of talent)
to revolve; to rotate / to turn around; to turn back / to go back; to return / (skiing) slalom
to return / circuit (e.g. electric) / loop
receipt (written acknowledgement of receipt of an item)
to redeem
to circle; to wheel; to go around
to turn back / to put back / reversal / melodic inversion (in music)
palindrome
to replay / to play back
to return sb's gaze; to meet sb's eyes / to look back (to one's rear) / (fig.) to look back at (the past); to reflect on
to glance back / to look back / retrospective
to backfill
Longhui county in Shaoyang 邵陽|邵阳, Hunan
chapter title (in a novel)
to reverse a desperate situation
buyback / repurchase / to buy back
to temper (iron) / to flare back / flareback (in a gas burner) / (of an engine) to backfire
echo (e.g. radar) / returning wave
Hui Islamic ethnic group living across China
one of a sequence of contests (or subdivisions of a contest) between the same two opponents / round (boxing etc) / rally (tennis etc) / frame (billiards etc) / inning / (tennis, soccer etc) rubber or leg / round (of negotiations)
to recall (a product, an ambassador etc)
to echo / to reverberate / to respond / echo / response / reaction
paper clip
to reply
winding corridor / cloister / ambulatory (covered walkway around a cloister)
twice-cooked pork
echo
variant of 輪迴|轮回
roundabout route / circuitous / tortuous / to outflank / indirect / roundabout
to steam again / to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer / to withdraw currency from circulation
receipt
(old) the Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims); a Hui person
time and again; every time
to fight back; to return fire; to counterattack
to recall / to look back upon
return trip
to melt down / to remelt (metals) / fig. to acquire new education / to bake again
to change one's mind (idiom)
last time; the previous time
(idiom) (of a doctor) to effect a miracle cure
Shunhe Hui district of Kaifeng city 開封市|开封市, Henan
variant of 迴轉|回转
to collect one's thoughts (after being surprised or shocked) / to snap out of it (after being lost in thought)
to pull back / to regain (one's dignity etc) / to recover from (an adverse situation) / to turn the tables
See you later!
stoping (excavating ore using stepped terraces) / to extract ore / extraction / to pull back
to return a greeting / to send a gift in return
sudden thrust (that catches the opponent off guard)
to resound / to reverberate / to echo
next chapter / next time
to rebuff / to refuse / to turn down
(of the weather) to warm up again
to have a rich aftertaste / (fig.) memorable; to linger in one's memory

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