Chinese Character Wiki
退

tuì

retreat

Original meaning: 

take away a sacrificial offering

Depicts moving (辶) a sacrificial grain offering (簋) away. Based on the original meaning "take away a sacrificial offering". The meaning later shifted to "withdraw" and "retreat".

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

簋 meaning,remnant component

簋  Meaning Remnant component

guǐ

  

container for sacrificial grain

Evolution

退 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

退  

tuì

step back, retreat, withdraw; to retreat; to decline; to move back; to withdraw

Most common words with 退
Freq.
Word
Meaning

退

to retreat

退出

to withdraw

退休

to retire

后退

to recoil

撤退

to retreat

Component uses

Meaning component in 2 characters (0 verified)

褪 煺

Sound component in 2 characters (1 verified)

腿 褪

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*n̥ˤ[u]p-s

thwojH

tuì

withdraw (≠ advance)


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 53.1475% of movies

735th most common character in movies

723rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+9000

Shuowen

“，卻也。一曰行遲也。从彳，从日，从夂。”


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