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
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
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。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.129-130
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