退 tuì
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 艮 blunt
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
退税
tuìshuì
tax refund
Characters in this word
税 shuì
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 禾 — cereal, grain, rice
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 出口企业需要按规定提交材料，才能办理退税。 Chūkǒu qǐyè xūyào àn guīdìng tíjiāo cáiliào, cái néng bànlǐ tuìshuì. Export companies need to submit the required documents before they can process a tax refund.
- 游客离开前可以在机场办理退税。 Yóukè líkāi qián kěyǐ zài jīchǎng bànlǐ tuìshuì. Tourists can claim a tax refund at the airport before leaving.
- 他买了很多东西，想看看能不能退税。 Tā mǎi le hěn duō dōngxi, xiǎng kànkan néng bu néng tuìshuì. He bought a lot of things and wanted to see whether he could get a tax refund.
Related words
- 退 tuì to step back; to return
- 退出 tuìchū to leave; to withdraw
- 退休 tuìxiū to retire
- 后退 hòutuì to retreat, to move back
- 撤退 chètuì to retreat; to withdraw
- 辞退 cítuì to dismiss; to fire
- 倒退 dàotuì to go backwards; to regress
- 减退 jiǎntuì to decline; to weaken
- 衰退 shuāituì to decline; to recede; recession
- 退步 tuìbù to regress; to fall behind
- 退化 tuìhuà to degenerate; to deteriorate
- 退回 tuìhuí to return; to send back