回 huí return

Example sentences

我回家了。Wǒ huí jiā le.I went home.
他下午回来。Tā xiàwǔ huílái.He comes back in the afternoon.

HSK 1 — the first of the six levels: 150 words. You can greet people, say who you are and ask simple questions. In HSK 3.0, 回 is in band 1. HSK 1 explained

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中回means return. You say it when you go back to a place, like going back home. Here someone tells you where they went.

中我回家了。

I went home. Want to try it out loud?

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Stroke order

回 is written in 6 strokes.

回 — the Chinese character for return (huí), stroke diagram — Stroke diagram for 回 — return

Senses

to go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around
to reply; to answer
classifier for literary divisions (acts of a play, sections or chapters of a classic book)
classifier for occurrences or times

Related words

Where 回 lives

HSK 1 list Practise HSK 3.0 · band 1 Practise Topic: Movement Practise

回 is pronounced huí and means “return”.