huí

to go back; to return; to turn around

HSK 1 #172

Character data

HSK 1
Frequency 172nd character
Radical ⼞ (31.3)
Strokes 6
Index # 438

Definitions

回 huí
  1. 1. to go back
  2. 2. to return
  3. 3. to turn around
  4. 4. to answer
  5. 5. time
  6. 6. to circle
  7. 7. to revolve
  8. 8. to curve
  9. 9. Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)
  10. 10. section or chapter (of a classic book)
  11. 11. classifier for acts of a play
  12. 12. variant of huí

Stroke order

回 stroke order diagram
回 stroke order animation

Words containing 回

Word Meaning
to echo; echo; to reverberate
indirect; circuitous; roundabout
to recall; to look back upon
the road back to where one came from
to send back
circuit (e.g. electric); loop; to return
two quite different things; two unrelated matters
a kickback; euphemism for a bribe
to rotate; to turn round; to revolve
to echo; to resound; to reverberate
last time; the previous time
to send a gift in return; to return a greeting
to turn back; to retrace one's steps
to return to one's native place; to go back to one's roots
paper clip
irrevocable; the die is cast
to rise again after a fall; to pick up
Islam
to rebound
to recover from (an adverse situation); to turn the tables
things have taken a new turn
gone forever (idiom)
(fig.) to revert to the former way of doing things
return of spring
(of the weather) to warm up again