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Chinese symbol for “retriever”

寻回犬
xún huí quǎn
Traditional: 尋回犬
retriever (dog breed group)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for retriever is 寻回犬 (xún huí quǎn), defined as: retriever (dog breed group).

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Characters and stroke order

寻 xún
to seek; to search for, to look for; ancient
radical 41 ⼨ · 6 strokes
回 huí
to return, to turn around; a time
radical 31 ⼞ · 6 strokes
犬 quǎn
dog
radical 94 ⽝ · 4 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 寻回犬.

WordPinyinMeaning
寻找 (尋找)xún zhǎoto seek; to look for
寻求 (尋求)xún qiúto seek; to look for
寻常 (尋常)xún chángusual; common; ordinary
搜寻 (搜尋)sōu xúnto search; to look for
找寻 (找尋)zhǎo xúnto look for; to seek
追寻 (追尋)zhuī xúnto pursue; to track down
回来 (回來)huí laito return; to come back
回到huí dàoto return to
警犬jǐng quǎnpolice dog

See also: Japanese symbol for “retriever”.

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.