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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
to reply; to answer / reply; answer
HSK 1
to recall / memories / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
to return to
HSK 1
to return / to go back
HSK 1
to return to one's home country
HSK 2
(in) return / reciprocation / payback / retaliation / to report back / to reciprocate
HSK 5
to return; to come back
HSK 1
to recycle / to reclaim / to retrieve / to recover / to recall (a defective product)
HSK 5
to recall / to recollect / to think back
HSK 7-9
to reply / to write back / letter written in reply / CL:
HSK 5
to turn round; to turn one's head / later; by and by
HSK 5
to respond / response
HSK 6
to return to / to retreat / regression (statistics)
HSK 7-9
to look back / to review
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *迴* | 迴* | *迴
to curve / to return / to revolve
HSK 1
to repay a favor / to give back / feedback
HSK 7-9
to fall back / to return to low level after a rise (in water level, price etc)
HSK 7-9
to shun / to avoid (sb) / to skirt / to evade (an issue) / to step back / to withdraw / to recuse (a judge etc)
HSK 5
to have a rich aftertaste / (fig.) memorable; to linger in one's memory
winding corridor / cloister / ambulatory (covered walkway around a cloister)
brokerage / a commission paid to a middleman / euphemism for a bribe / a kickback
HSK 7-9
to call to mind and ponder over / aftertaste
HSK 7-9
to turn around; to look back / (fig.) to recall the past
HSK 7-9
repeat customer
paper clip
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 replay / to play back
to reply (by letter, email etc) / reply; answer
to return / circuit (e.g. electric) / loop
number of times (sth happens) / number of chapters in a classical novel / (math.) palindromic number
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)
a reply (in writing)
return trip
(of a wife) to return to her parental home / (fig.) to return to one's old place, job, school etc
Hui ethnic group (Chinese muslims)
to answer back; to retort
to flow back / reflux / circumfluence / refluence / backward flow / returning flow (e.g. of talent)
echo
to recoup one's investment
to change one's mind (idiom)
frequency with which people turn their heads to look; degree of attracting attention / percentage of repeat customers (catering, hospitality etc)
(of sth that has been deformed) to spring back to original shape / (fig.) to rebound / to bounce back
receipt / note acknowledging receipt
to cook again / to rewarm food
to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc) / variant of 回覆
HSK 4
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
receipt (written acknowledgement of receipt of an item)
to regurgitate / (fig.) (of a stock market) to give up (gains)
Islam
to return to the capital
payment of money owing
to turn a vehicle around / (computing) "carriage return" character / the "Enter" key / to hit the "Enter" key
(medicine) (of blood) to flow back into the IV tube / (gaming) to restore health points; (fig.) to recover (to some extent)
(computing) enter key; return key (on a keyboard)
echo / reply / turn (ornament in music)
to reply
callback (computing)
palindrome
to reverse a desperate situation
Hui person / member of Hui ethnic group living across China
to glance back / to look back / retrospective
twice-cooked pork
to collect one's thoughts (after being surprised or shocked) / to snap out of it (after being lost in thought)
to rebuff / to refuse / to turn down
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
recycling center; waste materials collection depot / (computing) recycle bin
Hui Islamic ethnic group living across China
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)
final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)
(computing) to roll back / rollback / (sports) (of a ball) to come back (due to backspin or sloping ground)
variant of 迴避|回避
HSK 5
buyback / repurchase / to buy back
commission / sales
return address
(Tw) (of traffic) to be jammed / traffic backup
Huihe, 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
sudden thrust (that catches the opponent off guard)
rondo
to fight back; to return fire; to counterattack
to return empty (i.e. to drive back with no passengers or freight)
reused cooking oil
memoir
HSK 7-9
return of the emperor
to look back at history
to backfill
to recharge
stoping (excavating ore using stepped terraces) / to extract ore / extraction / to pull back
tropic / one of the two latitude lines, Tropic of Capricorn or Tropic of Cancer
to recall / to look back upon
to become moist again / to revive (usually of sth bad) / resurgence
(of the weather) to warm up again
to answer back
recurring fever
to steam again / to rewarm food in a bamboo steamer / to withdraw currency from circulation
first return of bride to her parental home
(computing) "carriage return" character (ASCII code 13)

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