退

Translingual

Han character

退 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜日女 (YAV), four-corner 3730₃, composition ⿺辶艮)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1256, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38839
• Dae Jaweon: page 1740, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3834, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9000

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Chinese

trad.		退
simp. #		退

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 退
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (退) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
腿	*n̥ʰuːlʔ
退	*n̥ʰuːbs
褪	*n̥ʰuːns

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

Current form is essentially 辶 + 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.

Cognate with 褪 (OC *n̥ʰuːns).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 退

1. to step back; to move backwards
2. to withdraw; to leave
3. to cause to move backward
4. to recede; to fade; to ebb
5. to return (a purchase, etc.); to refund
6. to cancel; to call off

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

退

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. retreat, withdraw
2. cause to retreat or withdraw: to drive out

Readings

• Go-on: たい (tai, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: たい (tai, Jōyō)
• Kun: そく (soku, 退く); そき (soki, 退); そき (soki, 退き); しりぞく (shirizoku, 退く, Jōyō); しりぞける (shirizokeru, 退ける, Jōyō); どく (doku, 退く); どかす (dokasu, 退かす); どける (dokeru, 退ける); のく (noku, 退く); のかす (nokasu, 退かす); のける (nokeru, 退ける); のけ (noke); のけ (noke, 退け); ひく (hiku, 退く); ひける (hikeru, 退ける); ひけ (hike, 退); ひけ (hike, 退け); しさる (shisaru, 退る); すさる (susaru, 退る)

Compounds

Compounds

• 退(たい)院(いん) (taīn)
• 退屈(たいくつ) (taikutsu)
• 退却(たいきゃく) (taikyaku)
• 退職(たいしょく) (taishoku)
• 退(たい)治屋(じや) (taijiya): exterminator
• 撃退(げきたい) (gekitai): to repel (by force), to beat back, to get rid of, to force away, to reject forcefully
• 退陣(たいじん) (taijin)
• 退任(たいにん) (tainin)
• 退(たい)避(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 • (toe) (hangeul 퇴, revised toe, McCune–Reischauer t'oe, Yale thoy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 退 (thoái, thói, thối, thủi, thui, thúi, thụi)

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