退

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): ⻌ (“move”) + 夊 (“walk”) + 日 (“sun”) – to walk away from the sun, to retreat.

Current form is essentially ⻌ + 艮, where the unrelated 艮 is a simplification of 日 + 夊 – in careful writing the form may be slightly different (notably in the lower right component being separated and convex, rather than attached and concave), reflecting different etymology.

Han character

退 (radical 162 辵+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜日女 (YAV), four-corner 3730₃)

1. step back, retreat, withdraw

References

• KangXi: page 1256, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38839
• Dae Jaweon: page 1740, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3834, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9000

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Cantonese

Hanzi

退 (Yale teui3)

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Japanese

Kanji

退 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: たい (tai), とん (ton)
• Kun: しりぞく (shirizoku), しりぞける (shirizokeru)

Compounds

退院 (たいいん, taiin) 退屈 (たいくつ, taikutsu) 退却 (たいきゃく, taikyaku) 退職 (たいしょく, taishoku) 退治屋 (たいじや, taijiya) exterminator

撃退 (げきたい, gekitai) repel 退陣 (たいじん, taijin) 退任 (たいにん, tainin) 退避 (たいひ, taihi) 退色 (たいしょく, taishoku)

退勢 (たいせい, taisei) 退廃 (たいはい, taihai) 隠退 (いんたい, intai) 衰退 (すいたい, suitai)

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Korean

Hanja

退 (hangeul 퇴, revised toe, McCune-Reischauer t'oe, Yale thoy)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

退 (pinyin tuì (tui4), Wade-Giles t'ui⁴)

Compounds

• 退避
• 退避三舍
• 退兵
• 退步
• 退场
• 退潮
• 退出 : (computing) to log out
• 退党
• 退佃
• 退股
• 退化
• 退还
• 退换
• 退回
• 退婚
• 退火
• 退伙
• 退货
• 退居
• 退款
• 退路
• 退落
• 退赔
• 退票
• 退瓶
• 退坡
• 退钱
• 退亲
• 退却
• 退让
• 退热
• 退色
• 退烧
• 退守
• 退缩
• 退庭
• 退团
• 退位
• 退伍
• 退席
• 退休
• 退学
• 退一步
• 退役
• 退隐
• 退赃
• 退职
• 退走
• 退租

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Vietnamese

Han character

退 (thối, thoái, thói, thủi, thui, thúi, thụi)