回
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To return to the place you belong to or set out from, such as home or your own country. The place follows directly: 回家 'go home', 回中国 'go back to China'. 回来 is 'come back' and 回去 'go back'; 回电话 is 'to call back'.
Trở về nơi mình vốn ở hoặc nơi mình đã đi ra, như nhà hay quê hương. Nơi chốn đứng ngay sau, giống “về” trong tiếng Việt: 回家 (về nhà), 回中国 (về Trung Quốc). 回来 là “về đây, quay lại”, 回去 là “về đó”; 回电话 là “gọi lại”.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “回” mean?
To return to the place you belong to or set out from, such as home or your own country. The place follows directly: 回家 'go home', 回中国 'go back to China'. 回来 is 'come back' and 回去 'go back'; 回电话 is 'to call back'.
Is “回” formal or informal?
回 is generally neutral.