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Mythic Mandarin

后退 (hòu tuì): meaning and stroke order

后退 (hòu tuì) means to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat.

后退

Simplified
后退
Traditional
後退
Pinyin
hòu tuì

Stroke order of 后退

后

  • Hòu surname Hou
  • hòu empress; queen
  • hòu back; behind
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 後

Stroke by stroke

退

  • tuì to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth)
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 后退

  1. hòu tuì Traditional 後退
    • to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat

Radicals of the characters

后
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes · built from 𠂋 and 口
退
Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 10 strokes · built from 辶 and 艮

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

后退 in our stories

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  • 秦将白起故意假装失败，一路后退，赵括以为自己赢了，带着大军追了上去。

    Qín jiàng Bái Qǐ gùyì jiǎzhuāng shībài yílù hòutuì Zhào Kuò yǐwéi zìjǐ yíng le dài zhe dàjūn zhuī le shàngqu

    The Qin general Bai Qi deliberately feigned defeat and fell back all the way; Zhao Kuo thought he had won and pursued with his whole army.

    From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 后退

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).