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HSK
to return home
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 reply; to answer / reply; answer
HSK 1
to return; to come back
HSK 1
to return to one's home country
HSK 2
to return to
HSK 1
(in) return / reciprocation / payback / retaliation / to report back / to reciprocate
HSK 5
to return / to go back
HSK 1
to recall / memories / CL: 個|个
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 recycle / to reclaim / to retrieve / to recover / to recall (a defective product)
HSK 5
to return to / to retreat / regression (statistics)
HSK 7-9
to recall / to recollect / to think back
HSK 7-9
to reply / to write back / letter written in reply / CL:
HSK 5
to regain / to retake / to take back / to withdraw / to revoke
HSK 4
to repay a favor / to give back / feedback
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *回* | 回* | *回
variant of 迴|回
HSK 1
to respond / response
HSK 6
to return to / to come (or go) back
HSK 5
to look back / to review
HSK 5
one and the same (thing) / one thing (as distinct from another)
HSK 7-9
unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)
to echo / to reverberate / to respond / echo / response / reaction
(idiom) (of a doctor) to effect a miracle cure
to make a round trip / return journey / back and forth / to and fro / repeatedly
HSK 7-9
to send back
See you! / Bye!
a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold
to fall back / to return to low level after a rise (in water level, price etc)
HSK 7-9
to look back at history
train of thought; way of thinking
memoir
HSK 7-9
receipt (written acknowledgement of receipt of an item)
brokerage / a commission paid to a middleman / euphemism for a bribe / a kickback
HSK 7-9
to call sb back (on the phone) / a return call / to reply to a telegram / to wire back / a reply telegram
to fight back; to return fire; to counterattack
to retrieve
to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc) / variant of 回覆
HSK 4
to call to mind and ponder over / aftertaste
HSK 7-9
to earn back (money one invested, wasted etc)
to turn around; to look back / (fig.) to recall the past
HSK 7-9
to go around; to roam; to tour
to take seriously (often with negative expression: "don't take it too seriously") / to treat conscientiously
to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)
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
to rise again after a fall / to pick up / rally (stock market etc)
HSK 7-9
to return a compliment / to give sth in return
to reply
to replay / to play back
echo
twice-cooked pork
recyclable
the first time / for the first time
frequency with which people turn their heads to look; degree of attracting attention / percentage of repeat customers (catering, hospitality etc)
(Internet slang) to retaliate verbally; to hit back (at critics)
to reply (by letter, email etc) / reply; answer
number of times (sth happens) / number of chapters in a classical novel / (math.) palindromic number
to return / circuit (e.g. electric) / loop
to retrieve / to redeem
HSK 7-9
final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
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)
tropic / one of the two latitude lines, Tropic of Capricorn or Tropic of Cancer
to revolve; to rotate / to turn around; to turn back / to go back; to return / (skiing) slalom
the road back to where one came from
to retrieve
a reply (in writing)
return trip
boomerang
(of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
not regard as a matter (of any importance)
Hui ethnic group (Chinese muslims)
to take back (forcibly); to recapture; to win back
to return (an item) / to send back / to go back
HSK 7-9
Tropic of Cancer
to answer back; to retort
to flow back / reflux / circumfluence / refluence / backward flow / returning flow (e.g. of talent)
irreversible
to recoup one's investment
return on investment (ROI)
to give sb (a gift) in return
last time; the previous time
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, capital Yinchuan 銀川市|银川市 (abbr. to 寧|宁)
if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes
to turn back / to put back / reversal / melodic inversion (in music)
conveyor belt sushi (restaurant)
repeat customer
to recall (a product, an ambassador etc)
to revert / to change back into
to circle; to wheel; to go around
to pull back / to regain (one's dignity etc) / to recover from (an adverse situation) / to turn the tables
Datong Hui and Tu autonomous county in Xining 西寧|西宁, Qinghai
novel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter headed by a summary couplet
recurring fever
to rebuff / to refuse / to turn down
paper clip
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
regression (psychology)

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