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huí tóu
HSK 5freq #2717

Meanings

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huí tóu
  1. 1.to turn round; to turn one's head
  2. 2.later; by and by

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to turn round; to turn one's head back
  2. 2.to repent
  3. 3.to decline (a request); to reject; to turn down
  4. 4.to tell; to inform
  5. 5.to part with; to say goodbye to
  6. 6.to dismiss; to fire
  7. 7.later
  8. 8.letter in reply

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Stroke order

Components

回囗
头大⺀

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Characters

回头

Example sentences

Sentences from Tatoeba · CC-BY 2.0 FR

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Synonyms

悔悔恨悔悟悔過悔过轉頭转头掉頭掉头回首斡頭斡头踅頭踅头回信回批回音

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Derived terms

一步一回頭一步一回头吃回頭草吃回头草回頭客回头客回頭是岸回头是岸回頭率回头率回頭見回头见好馬不吃回頭草好马不吃回头草打回頭打回头敗子回頭败子回头浪子回頭金不換浪子回头金不换開弓沒有回頭箭开弓没有回头箭

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Related words

回头见 See you!回头率 frequency with which people turn their heads to look; degree of attracting attention回头客 repeat customer回头路 the road back to where one came from败子回头 return of the prodigal son浪子回头 the return of a prodigal son (idiom)走回头路 to turn back不撞南墙不回头 to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)好马不吃回头草 lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom)浪子回头金不换 a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold开弓没有回头箭 lit. once you've shot the arrow, there's no getting it back (idiom)苦海无边，回头是岸 The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering.