I'm sorry. I take back my words.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
收回
to regain
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to regain
02
to retake
03
to take back
04
to withdraw
05
to revoke
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 收回 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 收回 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Can I get my money back?
Foreign investors withdrew their money from America.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 收回.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 收回.
Directly before
- 我收回1
- 美国收回1
- 能收回1
Directly after
- 收回我2
- 收回他们1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 收回
What does 收回 mean in Chinese?
收回 (shōuhuí) means to regain.
How do you pronounce 收回?
收回 is pronounced shōuhuí.
Is 收回 an HSK word?
收回 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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