Chinese symbol for “ebb”

减退

jiǎn tuì

Traditional: 減退

to ebb; to go down; to decline

The closest CC-CEDICT match for ebb is 减退 (jiǎn tuì), defined as: to ebb; to go down; to decline.

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Characters and stroke order

减 jiǎn

to decrease, to subtract, to diminish

radical 15 ⼎ · 11 strokes

退 tuì

to retreat, to step back, to withdraw

radical 162 ⾡ · 10 strokes

Traditional forms

減 jiǎn

Related words

Other words that share a character with 减退.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
减少 (減少)	jiǎn shǎo	to lessen; to decrease; to reduce; to lower
减轻 (減輕)	jiǎn qīng	to lighten; to ease
减肥 (減肥)	jiǎn féi	to lose weight
削减 (削減)	xuē jiǎn	to cut down; to reduce
减弱 (減弱)	jiǎn ruò	to weaken; to diminish
缩减 (縮減)	suō jiǎn	to cut; to reduce
退出	tuì chū	to withdraw; to abort
退休	tuì xiū	to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement

See also: Japanese symbol for “ebb”.

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.