回 (wui4 | hui2) : turn around; return; answer

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wui4

hui2

[1] turn round, revolve, rotate [2] return; go/come back [3] answer; reply; report back [4] politely refuse; decline; dismiss [5] chapter (of a story) [6] (measure) time (as used to indicate number of occurrence [7] (measure) piece (as used for happenings or events [8] Hui ethnic group

variant: 囘

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 6

Level: 3

Radical: 囗 (#31)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

回

This word has been viewed 12887 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 23rd Jul 2009 16:07

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回家 wui4 gaa1 hui2 jia1 = return home; go home 國

回答 wui4 daap3 hui2 da2 = to answer, to reply, respond

回頭 wui4 tau4 hui2 tou2 = turn (one's head) around; look back

回落 wui4 lok6 hui2 luo4 = fall after a rise

回佣 wui4 jung2 hui2 yong4 = sales commission; rebate; kickback

回手 wui4 sau2 hui2 shou3 = hit back

童年回憶 tung4 nin4 wui4 jik1 tong2 nian2 hui2 yi4 = childhood memory

回憶 wui4 jik1 hui2 yi4 = recall; recollect; remember

回教 wui4 gaau3 = Islam; Muslim

回收 wui4 sau1 hui2 shou1 = recycle; recall
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Showing all 3 examples containing 回

怎麼回事？國
What's going on? [Literally: How is the result?]

園主又打發了另一個僕人去，他們也把那人打了，並加以侮辱，放他空手回去。國
And again he (the lord of the vinyard) sent another servant. But they beat him also. They humiliated him, sent him away empty handed. (Luke 20:11)

示威者向警察掟石﹐而警察用橡膠子彈回敬。粵
Protesters threw stones at the police, who responded with rubber bullets.
[Cantonese version has the two prepositional phrases placed before the two verbs; English version has the same placed after. ]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 回
Unicode code for this character: U+56de (off-site link)

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