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Chinese symbol for “retrace”

回抽
huí chōu
to pull back; to withdraw; (finance) (of a stock price etc) to retrace

The closest CC-CEDICT match for retrace is 回抽 (huí chōu), defined as: to pull back; to withdraw; (finance) (of a stock price etc) to retrace.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

回 huí
to return, to turn around; a time
radical 31 ⼞ · 6 strokes
抽 chōu
to draw out, to pull out; to sprout
radical 64 ⼿ · 8 strokes

Other Chinese words for “retrace”

WordPinyinMeaning
回描huí miáoflyback (of electron beam in cathode ray tube); retrace

Related words

Other words that share a character with 回抽.

WordPinyinMeaning
回来 (回來)huí laito return; to come back
回到huí dàoto return to
回家huí jiāto return home
回答huí dáto reply; to answer; reply; answer
回应 (回應)huí yìngto respond; response
回去huí quto return; to go back
抽烟 (抽煙)chōu yānvariant of 抽烟 (chōu yān)
抽象chōu xiàngabstract; abstraction

See also: Japanese symbol for “retrace”.

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.