却

old variant of 卻|却[que4]

but / yet / however / while / to go back / to decline / to retreat / nevertheless / even though

"seal" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 26)

to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)

to cool off / cooling

to forget

coolant

to resolve / to settle

cooling tower

to shrink back / to flinch

to step back

to save / to get rid of (so saving space)

just now

nevertheless / actually / the fact is ...

to refuse would be impolite

to decline / to refuse politely

to prevent or treat a disease

cooling water (in a reactor)

unable to refuse because of affection

to discard

to repel / to decline

there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom) / one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things

to die / to be done with this world

but on the contrary / but unexpectedly