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回

回

回 U+56DE, 回
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56DE
← 囝
[U+56DD] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 囟 →
[U+56DF]
See also: 何, 向, 同, and 迴

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

回 (radical 31 囗+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 田口 (WR), four-corner 60600, composition ⿴囗口)

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 216, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4690
  • Dae Jaweon: page 422, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 712, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+56DE

Chinese

trad. 回/迴
simp. 回
alt. forms 囬
囘
迴: “to circle; to return; to avoid”

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 回
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (回) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
回 *ɡuːl
徊 *ɡuːl
茴 *ɡuːl
洄 *ɡuːl
迴 *ɡuːl, *ɡuːls
佪 *ɡuːl
蛔 *ɡuːl

Pictogram (象形) : rotation (originally a spiral).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 回
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 戸恢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦuʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦuoi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwəj/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /ɣuɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣuɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 回
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷˤəj/
English go around

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 回
Reading # 1/1
No. 5443
Phonetic
component		 回
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 回
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡuːl/

Definitions

回

  1. to turn around
  2. to return; to go back
  3. to reply; to respond; to answer
  4. to decline; to refuse; to avoid
  5. to redo; to do again
  6. Classifier for chapters.
  7. Classifier for number of occurrences of events: times
  8. Short for 回族 (Huízú, “the Hui ethnic group”).

Synonyms

  • (to return):
Dialectal synonyms of 回 (“to return; to come or go back to”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 回、歸
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 回
Mandarin Beijing 回
Taiwan 回
Cantonese Guangzhou 返
Hong Kong 返
Taishan 返
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 轉
Liudui (S. Sixian) 歸
Hsinchu (Hailu) 轉
Dongshi (Dabu) 轉
Zhuolan (Raoping) 轉
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 轉
Min Nan Quanzhou 轉
Xiamen 轉
Zhangzhou 轉
Taipei 轉
Kaohsiung 轉
Tainan 轉
Taichung 轉
Yilan 轉
Lukang 轉
Sanxia 轉
Kinmen 轉
Magong 轉
Hsinchu 轉
Chaozhou 轉
Shantou 轉

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

回

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. turn

Readings

See also

  • 廻 (this is the older spelling of at least some senses or homonyms)

Compounds

Etymology 1

Counter

Kanji in this term
回
まわ(り)
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

回 ‎(hiragana まわり, romaji -mawari)

  1. a turn, times around something

Etymology 2

Counter

回 ‎(hiragana かい, romaji -kai)

  1. occurrences
  2. innings in baseball, games, rounds

Noun

Kanji in this term
回
かい
Grade: 2
on'yomi

回 ‎(hiragana かい, romaji kai)

  1. time, occasion
  2. turn, round
  3. (baseball, softball) inning

Korean

Hanja

回 • ‎(hoe) (hangeul 회, McCune-Reischauer hoe)

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Vietnamese

Han character

回 (hồi, hòi)

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