回 huí
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 囗 — enclosure
- Made of
- 囗 enclosure 口 mouth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
回到
huídào
to return to
Characters in this word
到 dào
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 至 reach, arrive 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我们回到了学校。 Wǒmen huídào le xuéxiào. We came back to school.
- 他回到了家。 Tā huídào le jiā. He got back home.
- 我们回到北京了。 Wǒmen huídào Běijīng le. We're back in Beijing.