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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 recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc) / variant of 回覆
HSK 4
(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 recall / memories / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
to respond / response
HSK 6
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 call to mind and ponder over / aftertaste
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
to recall / to recollect / to think back
HSK 7-9
memoir
HSK 7-9
to fall back / to return to low level after a rise (in water level, price etc)
HSK 7-9
(old) to report to one's master
twice-cooked pork
(of sth that has been deformed) to spring back to original shape / (fig.) to rebound / to bounce back
to temper (iron) / to flare back / flareback (in a gas burner) / (of an engine) to backfire
the solar year / the year defined as the period between successive equinoxes
return of the emperor
to look back at history
paper clip
Hui ethnic group (Chinese muslims)
to fall back (of water level or share prices)
to turn a vehicle around / (computing) "carriage return" character / the "Enter" key / to hit the "Enter" key
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 call sb back (on the phone) / a return call / to reply to a telegram / to wire back / a reply telegram
palindrome
winding
payment of money owing
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 recharge
to glance back / to look back / retrospective
to backfill
See you! / Bye!
chapter title (in a novel)
to reverse a desperate situation
buyback / repurchase / to buy back
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 echo / to reverberate / to respond / echo / response / reaction
regression (psychology)
to reply
to circle; to wheel; to go around
winding corridor / cloister / ambulatory (covered walkway around a cloister)
echo
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)
boomerang
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)
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
to resound / to reverberate / to echo
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
first return of bride to her parental home
receipt (written acknowledgement of receipt of an item)
echo / reply / turn (ornament in music)
sudden thrust (that catches the opponent off guard)
return of spring
final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
to give sb (a gift) in return
to report back to one's superior
to return a compliment / to give sth in return
ileum (segment of small intestine between the jejunum 空腸|空肠 and appendix 盲腸|盲肠)
a reply (in writing)
to return / to go back / to come back
callback (computing)
(idiom) nothing can be done to remedy the situation; beyond recovery
backcrossing (i.e. hybridization with parent)
Huihu, ancient name of an ethnic group who were the ancestors of the Uyghurs 維吾爾族|维吾尔族 and the Yugurs 裕固族
Islam
to cook again / to rewarm food

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