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回

huí

HSK 1 Character

What 回 means

1. to go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around
2. to reply; to answer
3. classifier for literary divisions (acts of a play, sections or chapters of a classic book)
4. classifier for occurrences or times

Other readings

回 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• huíto curve; to return; to revolve
• HuíHui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)
• huívariant of {回|huí}

Example sentences

• 还回去
  Hái huíqu
  Give it back.
• 回来。
  Back in.
• 回来！
  Come back.
• 回家。
  Go home.
• 回答。
  Respond.
• 回家！
  Go home!

Words starting with 回

• 回来huí laito return; to come back
• 回复huí fùto recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc); variant of 回覆
• 回家huí jiāto return home
• 回答huí dáto reply; to answer; reply; answer
• 回到huí dàoto return to
• 回去huí quto return; to go back
• 回忆huí yìto recall; memories
• 回报huí bào(in) return; reciprocation; payback
• 回顾huí gùto look back; to review
• 回避huí bìto shun; to avoid (sb); to skirt
• 回收huí shōuto recycle; to reclaim; to retrieve
• 回头huí tóuto turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by
• 回国huí guóto return to one's home country
• 回想huí xiǎngto recall; to recollect; to think back
• 回应huí yìngto respond; response
• 回归huí guīto return to; to retreat; regression (statistics)
• 回信huí xìnto reply; to write back; letter written in reply
• 回首huí shǒuto turn around; to look back; (fig.) to recall the past
• 回味huí wèito call to mind and ponder over; aftertaste
• 回族Huí zúHui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)
• 回事huí shì(old) to report to one's master
• 回忆录huí yì lùmemoir
• 回音huí yīnecho; reply; turn (ornament in music)
• 回荡huí dàngto resound; to reverberate; to echo

Words containing 回

• 挽回wǎn huíto retrieve; to redeem
• 返回fǎn huíto return to; to come (or go) back
• 怎么回事zěn me huí shìwhat's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?
• 来回lái huíto make a round trip; return journey; back and forth
• 收回shōu huíto regain; to retake; to take back
• 带回dài huíto bring back; to take back with one
• 一回事yī huí shìone and the same (thing); one thing (as distinct from another)
• 找回zhǎo huíto retrieve
• 轮回lún huí(Buddhism) samsara; cycle of rebirth; to recur cyclically…
• 退回tuì huíto return (an item); to send back; to go back
• 下回xià huínext chapter; next time
• 上回shàng huílast time; the previous time
• 巡回xún huíto go around; to roam; to tour
• 转回zhuǎn huíto turn back; to put back; reversal
• 话说回来huà shuō huí lai(but) then again; (but) on the other hand
• 夺回duó huíto take back (forcibly); to recapture; to win back
• 驳回bó huíto reject; to turn down; to overrule
• 迂回yū huíroundabout route; circuitous; tortuous
• 撤回chè huíto recall; to revoke; to retract
• 取回qǔ huíto retrieve
• 折回zhé huíto turn back; to retrace one's steps
• 召回zhào huíto recall (a product, an ambassador etc)
• 两回事liǎng huí shìtwo quite different things; two unrelated matters
• 打道回府dǎ dào huí fǔto go home (in a ceremonial procession); to return home

Characters that look like 回

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 因yīncause; reason; because
• 网wǎngnet; web; network; to net; to catch with a net
• 纲gānghead rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link
• 阴yīnovercast (weather); cloudy; shady
• 田tiánfield; farm
• 凹āoconcave; depressed; sunken; indented; female (connector etc)

Sounds the same

Read huí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 洄eddying; whirling (of water); to go against the current
• 茴(bound form) fennel
• 蛔roundworm; Ascaris lumbricoides
• 恛disordered; indistinct doubtful; blurred
• 廻variant of 回
• 囘variant of 回
• 囬variant of 回