返 fǎn

1. fǎn verb to return
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 回来 (Guoyu '返' v 1; Unihan '返')
2. fǎn verb to revert to; to restore
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 归还 (Guoyu '返' v 2; Unihan '返')
3. fǎn verb to replace
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 更换 (Guoyu '返' v 4)

Contained in

• 迷不知返 to go astray and to not know how to get back on the right path
• 不返其舍 will not return to their homes
• 折返 to turn back
• 回光返照 final radiance of the setting sun ; final final lucidity of someone facing death ; for something that previously flourished to be destroyed in an instant
• 返点(返點) sales bonus; affiliate reward; rebate; commission
• 遣返 to repatriate (e.g. prisoners of war); to send back
• 返还(返還) restitution; return of something to its original owner; remittance
• 迴光返照 final radiance of the setting sun ; excitation of the spirit before death ; prosperity before final destruction
• 送返 to send back
• 迷途知返 to get back on the right path; to mend one's ways
• 返岗(返崗) to resume one's former position; to return to work
• 返家 to return home
• 返国(返國) to return to one's country
• 返航 to return to the point of departure
• 一去不复返(一去不復返) gone forever
• 觉返迷津(覺返迷津) decide to go back after having lost the way
• 返港 to return to Hong Kong
• 积重难返(積重難返) ingrained habits are hard to overcome; bad old practices die hard
• 不返回 to not go back
• 返回 to return
• 返销粮(返銷糧) grain bought by the state and resold to areas undergoing a grain shortage
• 复返(復返) to come back; to return
• 流连忘返(流連忘返) to wander afar and forget to come home
• 返乡(返鄉) to return to one's home town
• 往返 to go somewhere and back
• 返潮 (of clothing, furniture, walls etc) to get damp (by absorbing moisture from the air or the ground)
• 重返 to return to
• 返驾(返駕) to return to the starting point of a journey
• 返本还原(返本還原) return to the source
• 返利 dealer incentive; sales bonus; rebate
• 返照回光 excitation of the spirit before death
• 返青 (of plants) to turn green again; to revegetate
• 返璞归真(返璞歸真) to return to one's true self; to regain the natural state
• 返券黄牛(返券黃牛) shopping coupon scalper, sb who sells unwanted or returned shopping coupons to others for a profit
• 无功而返(無功而返) to return without any achievement; to go home with one's tail between one's legs
• 返老还童(返老還童) to recover one's youthful vigor; to feel rejuvenated
• 返照 to reflect
• 返台(返臺) to return to Taiwan
• 返生 to regress
• 返程 return journey (e.g. home)
• 回返 to return; to go back; to come back
• 返还占有(返還占有) repossession
• 返自然 returned to nature

Also contained in

七返 、 七返生死 、 返本还源

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷六十九 志第二十二 律曆二 Volume 69 Treatises 22: Measures and Calendar 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 27
• 卷七十 志第二十三 律曆三 Volume 70 Treatises 23: Measures and Calendar 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 10
• 卷18　志第13 律曆下 Volume 18 Treatises 13: Measures and the Calendar 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 9
• 卷17　志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 9
• 卷一百一十四 載記第十四 苻堅下 Volume 114 Records 14: Fu Jian Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 8
• 卷一百四十一 志第九十四 樂十六 Volume 141 Treatises 94: Music 16 History of Song 宋史 — count: 7
• 卷六十二 志第三十八 樂二 Volume 62 Treatises 38: Music 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 7
• 第八十三回 Chapter 83 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 7
• 卷38 刁雍 王慧龍 韓延之 袁式 Volume 38: Diao Yong, Wang Huilong, Han Yanzhi, Yuan Shi Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 6
• 卷一百二十四 載記第二十四 慕容寶 慕容盛 慕容熙 慕容雲 Volume 124 Records 24: Murong Bao; Murong Sheng; Murong Xi; Murong Yun Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 6

Collocations

• 未返 (未返) 吾使傭而未返也 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷五 貴德 Chapter 5: Valuing Virtue — count: 6
• 三返 (三返) 三返不受 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷二 臣術 Chapter 2: The Art of the Statesman — count: 5
• 忘返 (忘返) 流遯忘返 — Book of Han 漢書, 漢書敘例 Preface to the Book of Han — count: 4
• 返政 (返政) 然後返政成王 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百二十四 載記第二十四 慕容寶 慕容盛 慕容熙 慕容雲 Volume 124 Records 24: Murong Bao; Murong Sheng; Murong Xi; Murong Yun — count: 4
• 旋返 (旋返) 須朝廷旋返 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六十六 列傳第三十六 劉弘 陶侃 Volume 66 Biographies 36: Liu Hong; Tao Kan — count: 3
• 返覆 (返覆) 如其姦回返覆 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷69 崔休 裴延俊 袁翻 Volume 69: Cui Xiu, Pei Yanjun, Yuan Fan — count: 3
• 返鲁 (返魯) 自衛返魯 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《儒林列傳》 Biographies of Confucian Scholars — count: 3
• 数返 (數返) 一夜數返 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷24 燕鳳 許謙 張衮 崔玄伯 鄧淵 Volume 24: Yan Feng, Xu Qian, Zhang Gun, Cui Xuanbo, Deng Yuan — count: 3
• 一返 (一返) 百餘日乃得一返 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷38 刁雍 王慧龍 韓延之 袁式 Volume 38: Diao Yong, Wang Huilong, Han Yanzhi, Yuan Shi — count: 3
• 不复返 (不復返) 流者不復返 — Xunzi 荀子, 非十二子篇第六 Chapter 6: Against the Twelve Masters — count: 2