Chinese symbol for “recoil”
后退
hòu tuì
Traditional: 後退
to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
The closest CC-CEDICT match for recoil is 后退 (hòu tuì), defined as: to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “recoil”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 反冲 (反衝) | fǎn chōng | recoil (of a gun); to bounce back |
| 后坐力 (後坐力) | hòu zuò lì | recoil (of a gun); backlash |
| 后坐 (後坐) | hòu zuò | recoil (of a firearm) |
| 畏缩 (畏縮) | wèi suō | to cower; to flinch; to quail; to recoil |
| 反撞 | fǎn zhuàng | recoil (of a gun) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 后退.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 最后 (最後) | zuì hòu | final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end |
| 之后 (之後) | zhī hòu | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then |
| 然后 (然後) | rán hòu | then; after that; afterwards |
| 以后 (以後) | yǐ hòu | after; later |
| 后来 (後來) | hòu lái | afterwards; later; newly arrived |
| 后面 (後面) | hòu mian | the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back |
| 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 “recoil”.
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.