回

huí = hu + ei2

to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)

回 = 口 + 囗 : Helga Horse (hu-) smuggled herself into the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (-ei2). She covered herself in an enclosure (囗) full of mandarins (口). Unfortunately, she missed one little detail: The box full of mandarins is to be shipped back (回) to China soon.

huí = hu + ei2

to curve / to return / to revolve

huí = hu + ei2

variant of 迴|回[hui2]

回 character breakdown

回
- 口
- 囗

kǒu = k + ou3

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

wéi = w + ei2

enclosure

Mnemonic symbol: a plastic enclosure. Willy Walrus (w) is keeping frozen fish in an enclosure (囗) in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2).

Characters with 回 as component

huí = hu + ei2

variant of 迴|回[hui2]

huí = hu + ei2

old variant of 蛔[hui2]

huí = hu + ei2

old variant of 蛔[hui2]

huí = hu + ei2

roundworm / Ascaris lumbricoides

huí = hu + ei2

old variant of 蛔[hui2]

huí = hu + ei2

variant of 蛔[hui2]

huái = hu + ai2

irresolute / to move back and forth

huí = hu + ei2

disordered / indistinct doubtful / blurred

miàn = mi + an4

variant of 面[mian4]

Words with 回

to make a round trip / return journey / back and forth / to and fro / repeatedly

next chapter / next time

unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)

see 一回生二回熟[yi1 hui2 sheng1 er4 hui2 shu2]

irreversible

to stubbornly insist on one's own ideas (idiom)

not regard as a matter (of any importance)

to listen to the next chapter for an explanation

repeatedly / back and forth again and again

gone forever

one and the same (thing) / one thing (as distinct from another)

Sentences with 回

dà

wáng

huí

lái

le

The king is back!