Chinese symbol for “backtrack”
走回头路
zǒu huí tóu lù
Traditional: 走回頭路
to turn back; to backtrack; (fig.) to revert to the former way of doing things
The closest CC-CEDICT match for backtrack is 走回头路 (zǒu huí tóu lù), defined as: to turn back; to backtrack; (fig.) to revert to the former way of doing things.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 走回头路.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 走向 | zǒu xiàng | direction; strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology) |
| 走出 | zǒu chū | to leave (a room etc); to go out through (a door etc) |
| 走进 (走進) | zǒu jìn | to enter; to step into |
| 带走 (帶走) | dài zǒu | to carry; to take away |
| 走过 (走過) | zǒu guò | to walk past; to pass by |
| 走路 | zǒu lù | to walk; to go on foot; to leave; to depart |
| 回来 (回來) | huí lai | to return; to come back |
| 回到 | huí dào | to return to |
| 头发 (頭髮) | tóu fa | hair (on the head) |
| 铁路 (鐵路) | tiě lù | railroad; railway |
See also: Japanese symbol for “backtrack”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.