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煺

tuì

Character

What 煺 means

1. to pluck poultry or depilate pigs using hot water

Characters built on 退

These share the phonetic component 退 (tuì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 腿tuǐleg
• 褪tuìto take off (clothes); to shed (feathers); (of color) to fade…

Sounds the same

Read tuì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 退to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline
• 褪to take off (clothes); to shed (feathers); (of color) to fade…
• 蜕skin cast off during molting; exuvia; to pupate
• 駾approach at swift gallop (on horses)

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tuì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.