huí

return, turn around; a time

HSK 1 #172

DEFINITIONS

回 huí
  • to circle
  • to go back
  • to turn around
  • to answer
  • to return
  • to revolve
  • Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)
  • time
  • classifier for acts of a play
  • section or chapter (of a classic book)
  • to curve
  • variant of 迴|回[hui2]

STROKES

WORDS

响 huí xiǎng variant of 迴響|回响[hui2 xiang3]; to echo; to reverberate; to respond; echo; response; reaction
yū huí roundabout route; circuitous; tortuous; to outflank; indirect; roundabout
溯 huí sù to recall; to look back upon
头路 huí tóu lù the road back to where one came from
chuán huí to send back
路 huí lù to return; circuit (e.g. electric); loop
事 liǎng huí shì two quite different things; two unrelated matters
扣 huí kòu brokerage; a commission paid to a middleman; euphemism for a bribe; a kickback
转 huí zhuǎn to rotate; to turn round; slalom; to revolve; rotation
荡 huí dàng to resound; to reverberate; to echo
shàng huí last time; the previous time
礼 huí lǐ to return a greeting; to send a gift in return
zhé huí to turn back; to retrace one's steps
老家 huí lǎo jiā to go back to one's roots; to return to one's native place; by ext. to join one's ancestors (i.e. to die)
形针 huí xíng zhēn paper clip
无可挽 wú kě wǎn huí irrevocable; the die is cast
升 huí shēng to rise again after a fall; to pick up; rally (stock market etc)
教 huí jiào Islam
tán huí to rebound
bān huí to pull back; to regain (one's dignity etc); to recover from (an adverse situation); to turn the tables
路转 fēng huí lù zhuǎn the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom); (of a mountain road) twisting and turning; fig. an opportunity has come unexpectedly; things have taken a new turn
有去无 yǒu qù wú huí gone forever (idiom)
头路 zǒu huí tóu lù to turn back; to backtrack; (fig.) to revert to the former way of doing things
春 huí chūn return of spring
暖 huí nuǎn (of the weather) to warm up again