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
退回
tuìhuí
to return; to send back
Characters in this word
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
Example phrases
- 海关因资料不全将这批货物暂时退回。 Hǎiguān yīn zīliào bù quán jiāng zhè pī huòwù zànshí tuìhuí. Customs temporarily returned this batch of goods because the documents were incomplete.
- 他把多余的货物退回了仓库。 Tā bǎ duōyú de huòwù tuìhuí le cāngkù. He returned the surplus goods to the warehouse.
- 邮局把地址写错的包裹退回给了寄件人。 Yóujú bǎ dìzhǐ xiě cuò de bāoguǒ tuìhuí gěi le jìjiànrén. The post office sent the wrongly addressed parcel back to the sender.
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
- 退税 tuìshuì tax refund
- 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