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)

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