回 huí▶ regresar

Stroke order

回 is written in 6 strokes.

• 回

Senses

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

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.

Related words

• 回答Responder; respuesta
• 回忆Memoria
• 回报volver
• 回收recuperación
• 回避obviar; pasar por alto
• 回顾revisar; mirar atrás

回 is pronounced huí and means “regresar”. You will meet it in HSK 1, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 回 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.