漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
回: -times, round
Also: game, revolve, counter for occurrences
囗 carries the meaning · 口 is drawn in
Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
カイkai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 回数券かいすうけんbook of tickets
- 何回なんかいhow many times
- 三回さんかい3 times
- 今回こんかいthis time
- 最終回さいしゅうかいlast part
- 回転するかいてんするrotate
エe · on'yomi
- 回向えこうBuddhist memorial service
まわるmawaru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 回るまわるturn round [v.i.]
まわすmawasu · kun'yomi
- 回すまわすturn round [v.t.]
Also read -まわる, -まわり, -まわす, まわし-, -まわし, もとおる, かえる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
Rotation (originally a spiral).
Source: Wiktionary, 回 (rev. 92684097), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine a sturdy wall encircling a city! This radical completely wraps around other elements, containing them safely within its borders like a fence or a country's frontier.”
Connections
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · huí
Same form: 回 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 回 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 回 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin huí most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.