huí
return
Depicts water rotating around in a circle.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷˤəj | hwoj | huí | go around |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 99.8398% of movies
84th most common character in movies
172nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+56DE |
Shuowen | “回,轉也。从囗,中象回轉形。囘,古文。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.515-516
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