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HSK
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
to return home
HSK 1
to return; to come back
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *迴* | 迴* | *迴
to curve / to return / to revolve
HSK 1
to return / to go back
HSK 1
to reply; to answer / reply; answer
HSK 1
to return to
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *逥* | 逥* | *逥
variant of 迴|回
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
HSK 4
to turn round; to turn one's head / later; by and by
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 recall / memories / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
(in) return / reciprocation / payback / retaliation / to report back / to reciprocate
HSK 5
to return to / to come (or go) back
HSK 5
to look back / to review
HSK 5
to reply / to write back / letter written in reply / CL:
HSK 5
variant of 迴避|回避
HSK 5
to recycle / to reclaim / to retrieve / to recover / to recall (a defective product)
HSK 5
to respond / response
HSK 6
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 repay a favor / to give back / feedback
HSK 7-9
to recall / to recollect / to think back
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
memoir
HSK 7-9
to retrieve / to redeem
HSK 7-9
one and the same (thing) / one thing (as distinct from another)
HSK 7-9
to rise again after a fall / to pick up / rally (stock market etc)
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 fall back / to return to low level after a rise (in water level, price etc)
HSK 7-9
brokerage / a commission paid to a middleman / euphemism for a bribe / a kickback
HSK 7-9
to make a round trip / return journey / back and forth / to and fro / repeatedly
HSK 7-9
to reject / to turn down / to overrule
HSK 7-9
Hui Islamic ethnic group living across China
to look back at history
to go back to one's roots / to return to one's native place / by ext. to join one's ancestors (i.e. to die)
(coll.) (Tw) to get sacked / to be fired
(of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, capital Yinchuan 銀川市|银川市 (abbr. to 寧|宁)
Longhui county in Shaoyang 邵陽|邵阳, Hunan
to put on (clothes) / to put (clothes) back on
weather phenomenon characterized by condensation of warm moist air on cool surfaces during the transition from winter to spring in Southern China
winding corridor / cloister / ambulatory (covered walkway around a cloister)
to retrieve
twice-cooked pork
Mohammedan blue (a cobalt blue pigment imported from Persia, used as an underglaze on Chinese porcelain during the Ming dynasty)
receipt
to go around; to roam; to tour
to recover some lost ground (in a competition)
irreversible
to revolve; to rotate / to turn around; to turn back / to go back; to return / (skiing) slalom
to reply (by letter, email etc) / reply; answer
a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold
Mengcun Hui Autonomous County in Cangzhou 滄州|沧州, Hebei
See you later!
palindrome
to stick up for a wrongdoer
(old) to report to one's master
return of spring
to reincarnate / reincarnation (Buddhism) / (of the seasons etc) to follow each other cyclically / cycle / CL: 個|个
flashback; to flash back
echo / reply / turn (ornament in music)
to echo / to reverberate / to respond / echo / response / reaction
to reply to an invitation / (Internet) to post a comment on a forum topic
to report back to one's superior
to return a compliment / to give sth in return
(computing) enter key; return key (on a keyboard)
to resound / to reverberate / to echo
next chapter / next time
sudden thrust (that catches the opponent off guard)
to recall / to look back upon
to redeem
to reply
to cook again / to rewarm food
to recover (sth lost or stolen) / to get back
to have a rich aftertaste / (fig.) memorable; to linger in one's memory
to call sb back (on the phone) / a return call / to reply to a telegram / to wire back / a reply telegram
return trip
to flow back / reflux / circumfluence / refluence / backward flow / returning flow (e.g. of talent)
to rebuff / to refuse / to turn down
to circle; to wheel; to go around
receipt / note acknowledging receipt
last time; the previous time
Tropic of Cancer
to change one's mind (idiom)
to send back / to return
to temper (iron) / to flare back / flareback (in a gas burner) / (of an engine) to backfire
(theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances
two quite different things / two unrelated matters
to recall / to revoke / to retract
retrospective (exhibition)
to glance back / to look back / retrospective
(Internet slang) to retaliate verbally; to hit back (at critics)
gone forever
to melt down / to remelt (metals) / fig. to acquire new education / to bake again
The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering. / Repent and ye shall be saved!

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