Chinese symbol for “recapture”
夺回
duó huí
Traditional: 奪回
to take back (forcibly); to recapture; to win back
The closest CC-CEDICT match for recapture is 夺回 (duó huí), defined as: to take back (forcibly); to recapture; to win back.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “recapture”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 夺回.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 剥夺 (剝奪) | bō duó | to deprive; to expropriate |
| 争夺 (爭奪) | zhēng duó | to fight over; to contest |
| 夺取 (奪取) | duó qǔ | to seize; to capture |
| 掠夺 (掠奪) | lüè duó | to plunder; to rob |
| 夺得 (奪得) | duó dé | to take (after a struggle); to wrest |
| 夺冠 (奪冠) | duó guàn | to seize the crown; fig. to win a championship |
| 回来 (回來) | huí lai | to return; to come back |
| 回到 | huí dào | to return to |
See also: Japanese symbol for “recapture”.
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.