退 — retreat, withdraw, retire

しりぞく退 retreat

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+9000 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #424 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1575 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

retreat
withdraw
retire
resign
repel
expel
reject

word

しりぞ shirizo Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

退(しりぞ) く shirizoku to retreat

たい tai On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

退(たい) 職(しょく) taishoku retirement 引(いん) 退(たい) intai retirement 後(こう) 退(たい) koutai retreat 退(たい) 院(いん) taiin discharge from hospital 退(たい) 場(じょう) taijou exit 敗(はい) 退(たい) haitai defeat 退(たい) 席(せき) taiseki leaving one's seat 退(たい) 社(しゃ) taisha leaving the office

Appears in idioms

一進一退四字熟語

one, advance, one, retreat

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

艮 stopping

辶 road

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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