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Mythic Mandarin

回首 (huí shǒu): meaning and stroke order

回首 (huí shǒu) means to turn around; to look back, (fig.) to recall the past.

回首

Simplified
回首
Traditional
回首 (same form)
Pinyin
huí shǒu

Stroke order of 回首

回

  • huí to circle; to go back
  • huí to curve; to return
  • huí variant of 迴|回[hui2]
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 迴

Stroke by stroke

首

  • shǒu head; chief
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 回首

  1. huí shǒu
    • to turn around; to look back
    • (fig.) to recall the past

Radicals of the characters

回
Radical 囗 (Kangxi radical 31) · 6 strokes · built from 囗 and 口
首
Radical 首 (Kangxi radical 185) · 9 strokes · 丷 on top, 𦣻 below

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.

回首 in our stories

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  • 最后两句最有名：回首向来萧瑟处，归去，也无风雨也无晴。

    zuìhòu liǎng jù zuì yǒumíng huíshǒu xiànglái xiāosè chù guīqù yě wú fēngyǔ yě wú qíng

    The last two lines are the most famous: "Looking back at the place where it was bleak and cold, I go home: there was neither wind and rain nor sunshine."

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 回首

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).