Chinese Character Wiki
回

huí

return

Depicts water rotating around in a circle.

Evolution

回 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
回 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
回 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
回 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
回 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

回  

huí

return, turn around; a time; 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)

回 (逥) 

huí

variant of 迴|回[huí]

回 (迴) 

huí

to curve

Most common words with 回
Freq.
Word
Meaning

回

to circle

回来

to return

回家

to return home

回复

to reply

回去

to return

Component uses

Meaning component in 4 characters (2 verified)

迴 逥 徊 洄

Sound component in 6 characters (2 verified)

迴 逥 徊 蛔 洄 茴

Iconic component in 3 characters (3 verified)

沒 没 亘

Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)

没

Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)

亶

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。”


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