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挽回

wǎn huí

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

挽回 (wǎn huí) means "to retrieve; to redeem". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 挽回 means

1. to retrieve
2. to redeem

The characters in 挽回

• 挽wǎnto pull; to draw (a cart or a bow); to roll up
• 回huíto go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around; to reply; to answer…

Example sentences

• 但与此同时，它却在消逝：时间无可挽回地流逝， 而我们却四处游荡，成为我们对细节的热爱的囚徒。
  But meanwhile it flees: time flees irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail.

Words containing 挽回

• 不可挽回bù kě wǎn huíirreversible
• 无可挽回wú kě wǎn huíirrevocable; the die is cast

Where 挽回 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wán (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wǎn huí correctly.
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