回去

Chinese

		to circle; to go back; to turn around to circle; to go back; to turn around; to answer; to return; to revolve; (a measure word for matters or actions) a time; Islam	to go; to leave; to remove
simp. and trad. (回去)		回	去

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huíqù

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟˊ ㄑㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wui⁴ heoi³
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): fi² hi⁴
• Jin (Wiktionary): hui¹ geh⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hôe-khìr / hôe-khì
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶we-chi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huíqù → huíqu (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˊ ㄑㄩˋ → ㄏㄨㄟˊ ˙ㄑㄩ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huéicyů
    • Wade–Giles: hui²-chʻü⁵
    • Yale: hwéi-chyu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwei.chiuh
    • Palladius: хуэйцюй (xuejcjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕʰy⁵¹/ → /xu̯eɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕʰy³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wui⁴ heoi³
    • Yale: wùih heui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wui⁴ hoey³
    • Guangdong Romanization: wui⁴ hêu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːi̯²¹ hɵy̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: fi² hi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fi¹¹ hi⁵³/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: hui¹ geh⁴
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /xuei¹¹ kəʔ²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hôe-khìr
    • Tâi-lô: huê-khìr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hue²⁴⁻²² kʰɯ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hôe-khì
    • Tâi-lô: huê-khì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoe'qix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hue²⁴⁻²² kʰi²¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hue¹³⁻²² kʰi²¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶we-chi
    • MiniDict: we^去 chi
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhue-qi
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦue²² t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴/

Verb

回去

1. to return; to go back; to go; to leave

   找不到回去的路  ―  zhǎobudào huíqù de lù  ―  to be unable to find the way back

   你先回去吧。  ―  Nǐ xiān huíqù ba.  ―  You go back first.

   要不我，我還是先回去吧。 [MSC, trad.]
   要不我，我还是先回去吧。 [MSC, simp.]

   Yàobù wǒ, wǒ háishì xiān huíqù ba. [Pinyin]

   I think it's best I leave.

   馬上要過年了，回去又要拼酒了。 [MSC, trad.]
   马上要过年了，回去又要拼酒了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Mǎshàng yào guònián le, huíqù yòu yào pīnjiǔ le. [Pinyin]

   Chinese New Year is coming soon, and I have to have drinking contests again when I go back.

2. to go back (used after a verb to indicate direction away from speaker)

   走回去  ―  zǒu huíqù  ―  to walk back

   帶回去／带回去  ―  dài huíqù  ―  to take back

3. (Taiwan, euphemistic) to die; to go home

Usage notes

In Chinese there is often no distinction made between "return" and "leave"; 回去 (huíqù) can be translated either way depending on the situation.

Synonyms

• (to return):

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		回去
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	回去
	Taiwan	回去
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	回去
Cantonese	Guangzhou	返去
	Hong Kong	返去
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	返去
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	返去
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	返去
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	返去
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	返去
Hakka	Meixian	轉去
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	轉去, 倒轉去
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	歸去, 倒歸去, 倒轉去
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	轉去, 倒轉去
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	轉去, 倒轉去
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	轉去, 倒轉去
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	轉去, 倒轉去
	Hong Kong	轉去
	Senai (Huiyang)	轉去
Southern Min	Xiamen	轉去, 轉來去, 倒去, 倒來去
	Quanzhou	轉去, 轉來去, 倒去, 倒來去
	Zhangzhou	轉去, 轉來去
	Singapore (Hokkien)	翻去, 轉去, balik
	Manila (Hokkien)	倒去, 翻去, 斡去
	Shantou	轉去
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	轉去
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	轉去
Wu	Shanghai	回去, 轉去

Dialectal synonyms of 回去 (“to return; to go back”) [map]

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “to return”): 回來／回来 (huílái)