返 fǎn
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              fǎn 
              verb 
              to return 
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 回来 (Guoyu '返' v 1; Unihan '返') - 
              fǎn 
              verb 
              to revert to; to restore 
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 归还 (Guoyu '返' v 2; Unihan '返') - 
              fǎn 
              verb 
              to replace 
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 更换 (Guoyu '返' v 4) 
Contained in
- 返照 to reflect
 - 返利 dealer incentive; sales bonus; rebate
 - 遣返 to repatriate (e.g. prisoners of war); to send back
 - 返老还童(返老還童) to recover one's youthful vigor; to feel rejuvenated
 - 迴光返照 final radiance of the setting sun ; excitation of the spirit before death ; prosperity before final destruction
 - 折返 to turn back
 - 重返 to return to
 - 不返其舍 will not return to their homes
 - 返国(返國) to return to one's country
 - 觉返迷津(覺返迷津) decide to go back after having lost the way
 - 返岗(返崗) to resume one's former position; to return to work
 - 返家 to return home
 - 返港 to return to Hong Kong
 - 复返(復返) to come back; to return
 - 回光返照 final radiance of the setting sun ; final final lucidity of someone facing death ; for something that previously flourished to be destroyed in an instant
 - 返自然 returned to nature
 - 迷不知返 to go astray and to not know how to get back on the right path
 - 一去不复返(一去不復返) gone forever
 - 流连忘返(流連忘返) to wander afar and forget to come home
 - 送返 to send back
 - 返销粮(返銷糧) grain bought by the state and resold to areas undergoing a grain shortage
 - 往返 to go somewhere and back
 - 返生 to regress
 - 返驾(返駕) to return to the starting point of a journey
 - 回返 to return; to go back; to come back
 - 返程 return journey (e.g. home)
 - 返回 to return
 - 返还(返還) restitution; return of something to its original owner; remittance
 - 返璞归真(返璞歸真) to return to one's true self; to regain the natural state
 - 返券黄牛(返券黃牛) shopping coupon scalper, sb who sells unwanted or returned shopping coupons to others for a profit
 - 返乡(返鄉) to return to one's home town
 - 返航 to return to the point of departure
 - 返还占有(返還占有) repossession
 - 返本还原(返本還原) return to the source
 - 返照回光 excitation of the spirit before death
 - 返青 (of plants) to turn green again; to revegetate
 - 返点(返點) sales bonus; affiliate reward; rebate; commission
 - 返台(返臺) to return to Taiwan
 - 积重难返(積重難返) ingrained habits are hard to overcome; bad old practices die hard
 - 无功而返(無功而返) to return without any achievement; to go home with one's tail between one's legs
 - 返潮 (of clothing, furniture, walls etc) to get damp (by absorbing moisture from the air or the ground)
 - 迷途知返 to get back on the right path; to mend one's ways
 - 不返回 to not go back
 
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷六十九 志第二十二 律曆二 Volume 69 Treatises 22: Measures and Calendar 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 27
 - 卷七十 志第二十三 律曆三 Volume 70 Treatises 23: Measures and Calendar 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 10
 - 卷17 志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 9
 - 卷18 志第13 律曆下 Volume 18 Treatises 13: Measures and the Calendar 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 9
 - 卷一百一十四 載記第十四 苻堅下 Volume 114 Records 14: Fu Jian Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 8
 - 卷一百四十一 志第九十四 樂十六 Volume 141 Treatises 94: Music 16 History of Song 宋史 — count: 7
 - 第八十三回 Chapter 83 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 7
 - 卷六十二 志第三十八 樂二 Volume 62 Treatises 38: Music 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 7
 - 卷38 刁雍 王慧龍 韓延之 袁式 Volume 38: Diao Yong, Wang Huilong, Han Yanzhi, Yuan Shi Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 6
 - 卷一百二十四 載記第二十四 慕容寶 慕容盛 慕容熙 慕容雲 Volume 124 Records 24: Murong Bao; Murong Sheng; Murong Xi; Murong Yun Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 6
 
Collocations
- 未返 (未返) 吾使傭而未返也 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷五 貴德 Chapter 5: Valuing Virtue — count: 6
 - 三返 (三返) 三返不受 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷二 臣術 Chapter 2: The Art of the Statesman — count: 5
 - 返政 (返政) 然後返政成王 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百二十四 載記第二十四 慕容寶 慕容盛 慕容熙 慕容雲 Volume 124 Records 24: Murong Bao; Murong Sheng; Murong Xi; Murong Yun — count: 4
 - 忘返 (忘返) 流遯忘返 — Book of Han 漢書, 漢書敘例 Preface to the Book of Han — count: 4
 - 返鲁 (返魯) 自衛返魯 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《儒林列傳》 Biographies of Confucian Scholars — count: 3
 - 一返 (一返) 百餘日乃得一返 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷38 刁雍 王慧龍 韓延之 袁式 Volume 38: Diao Yong, Wang Huilong, Han Yanzhi, Yuan Shi — count: 3
 - 数返 (數返) 一夜數返 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷24 燕鳳 許謙 張衮 崔玄伯 鄧淵 Volume 24: Yan Feng, Xu Qian, Zhang Gun, Cui Xuanbo, Deng Yuan — count: 3
 - 返覆 (返覆) 如其姦回返覆 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷69 崔休 裴延俊 袁翻 Volume 69: Cui Xiu, Pei Yanjun, Yuan Fan — count: 3
 - 旋返 (旋返) 須朝廷旋返 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六十六 列傳第三十六 劉弘 陶侃 Volume 66 Biographies 36: Liu Hong; Tao Kan — count: 3
 - 室返 (室返) 於是築室返耕 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百〇五 載記第五 石勒下 Volume 105 Records 5: Shi Le Part Two — count: 2