退 tuì

1. tuì verb to retreat; to move back
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: As in 后退 (CC-CEDICT '退'; Guoyu '退' v 1; Kroll 2015 '退' 1, p. 462; Unihan '退'; XHZD '退' 1, p. 766)
2. tuì verb to decline; to recede; to fade
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 衰退 decline (CC-CEDICT '退'; Guoyu '退' v 8; Kroll 2015 '退' 1d, p. 462; XHZD '退' 4, p. 766)
3. tuì verb to yield; to concede; to politely decline
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 谦退 (Guoyu '退' v 3; Kroll 2015 '退' 1c, p. 462; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 1259)
4. tuì verb to quit; to withdraw
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 离去; for example, 退婚 to break off an engagement (CC-CEDICT '退'; Guoyu '退' v 4; Kroll 2015 '退' 1a, p. 462; Unihan '退'; XHZD '退' 2, p. 766)
5. tuì verb to give back
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 归还; for example, 退货 return goods (Guoyu '退' v 9; XHZD '退' 3, p. 766)
6. tuì verb for a planet to move with apparent retrograde motion
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '退' 1f, p. 462)
7. tuì verb to recoil; to flinch
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 畏缩 (Guoyu '退' v 2; Kroll 2015 '退' 1b, p. 462)
8. tuì verb to dismiss [from a job]
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 解除 (Guoyu '退' v 6; Kroll 2015 '退' 2, p. 462)
9. tuì adjective obsolete
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '退' 3, p. 462)
10. tuì verb to retire; to resign
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: For example, 退休 'retire' (Guoyu '退' v 5)
11. tuì verb to shed; to cast off
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 脫去 (Guoyu '退' v 7)

Contained in

• 渐次后退(漸次後退) retreated one by one
• 退休金 retirement pay; pension
• 静退(靜退) calmness and reserve
• 倒退 to fall back; to go in reverse ; to trace back
• 退伍军人节(退伍軍人節) Veterans' Day
• 打退 to beat back; to repel; to repulse
• 辞退(辭退) to dismiss; to discharge; to fire
• 减退(減退) to ebb; to go down; to decline
• 闪退(閃退) (of a mobile app) to crash on startup; to crash
• 打退堂鼓 to beat the return drum; to give up; to turn tail
• 退潮 (of a tide) to ebb or go out
• 无功者退(無功者退) to demote those with no merit
• 屏退 to send away; to dismiss (servants etc); to retire from public life
• 退役 to retire from the military, sport etc; to demobilize; to decommission; retired from use
• 消退 to wane; to vanish gradually
• 退票 to bounce (a check); to return a ticket; ticket refund
• 恬退 contented; uninterested in wealth and glory
• 退席 to absent oneself from a meeting; to decline to attend
• 逆水行舟，不进则退(逆水行舟，不進則退) like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back
• 退隐(退隱) retired ; to live in seclusion
• 退伍军人(退伍軍人) veteran
• 退下金 retirement pension
• 知难而退(知難而退) to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat; to back out of an awkward situation
• 退烧药(退燒藥) antipyretic (drug to reduce fever, such as sulfanilamide)
• 退冰 to thaw (frozen food); to bring to room temperature
• 不知进退(不知進退) not knowing when to come or leave; with no sense of propriety
• 退关(退關) shut-out, container or consigment not carried on the intended vessel or aircraft
• 经济衰退(經濟衰退) recession
• 衰退 to decline
• 学如逆水行舟，不进则退(學如逆水行舟，不進則退) Study is like rowing upstream: no advance is to drop back
• 退学(退學) to quit school
• 退群 to withdraw from a group
• 包退换(包退換) to guarantee refund or replacement (of faulty or unsatisfactory goods)
• 退色 to fade (of colors)
• 进退无路(進退無路) to have no alternative
• 进退有常(進退有常) to advance or retreat, each has its rules (idiom from Zhuangzi); many translations are possible
• 退缩(退縮) to shrink back; to cower
• 退步 to go backwards ; to lag behind ; to lose ground ; to yield; to withdraw ; a back room ; to degenerate; to regress
• 退婚 to break off an engagement [to marry]
• 半进半退(半進半退) half advancing and half retreating
• 三退 withdrawal from the Communist Party, the Communist Youth League, and the Young Pioneers of China
• 退格 backspace
• 退休 to retire
• 早退 early retirement; to leave a meeting too early
• 包退 to guarantee refund (for faulty or unsatisfactory goods)
• 退税(退稅) tax rebate or refund
• 退后(退後) to move backwards
• 进退为难(進退為難) no room to advance or to retreat; without any way out of a dilemma; trapped
• 进退(進退) to advance or retreat; knowing when to come and when to leave; a sense of propriety

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参退 、 退思园

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• 第三 律曆下 曆法 Volume 93: Rhythm and the Calendar Part Three Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 116
• 卷三十三 志第十三: 曆二 Volume 33 Treatises 13: Calendar 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 45
• 卷二十六 志第二 天文二 Volume 26 Treatises 2: Astronomy 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 42
• 卷三十六　志第十七:　禮九 國初即位儀 受尊號儀 元日聖誕上壽儀 朝參常朝儀 肆赦儀 臣下拜赦詔儀 Volume 36 Treatises 17: Rites 9 - Ceremonies for Succesion of the Throne; Ceremonies for Receiving Honorific Titles; New Year's Day Rituals; Participation in Regular Court Assemblies; Pardoning Ceremonies; Ceremonies for Pardoning by Officials with Imperial Decree History of Jin 金史 — count: 38
• 卷七十五 志第二十八 律曆八 Volume 75 Treatises 28: Measures and Calendar 8 History of Song 宋史 — count: 36
• 卷七十六　志第二十七上: 祭祀五 Volume 76 Treatises 29: Offerings 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 35
• 卷七十三　志第二十四: 　祭祀二 Volume 73 Treatises 26: Offerings 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 33
• 卷三十六 志第十二 曆六 Volume 36 Treatises 12: Calendar 6 History of Ming 明史 — count: 33
• 鄉射禮 第五 5. Rites of the district archery meet The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮 — count: 32
• 卷五十五　志第七:　　曆四 Volume 55 Treatises 8: Calendar 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 32

Collocations

• 少退 (少退) 宰自右少退 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 士冠禮 第一 1. Capping rites for (the son of) a common officer — count: 21
• 退反 (退反) 文子退反哭 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I — count: 10
• 射退 (射退) 司射退 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 鄉射禮 第五 5. Rites of the district archery meet — count: 8
• 师退 (師退) 師退 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 6
• 退飞 (退飛) 六鷁退飛 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 6
• 请退 (請退) 康子請退 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 6
• 子退 (子退) 楚子退師 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 5
• 退立 (退立) 退立而不如受命 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《祭義》 The Meaning of Sacrifices — count: 5
• 正退 (正退) 司正退立于序端 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 鄉飲酒禮 第四 4. Rites of the district symposium — count: 5
• 退曰 (退曰) 退曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 5