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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

返fǎn

to return (to)

Full entry
返回fǎn huí

to return to / to come (or go) back

返校fǎn xiào

to return to school

重返chóng fǎn

to return to

返航fǎn háng

to return to the point of departure

返程fǎn chéng

return trip / to make a return trip / to return

返还fǎn huán

restitution / return of something to its original owner / remittance

返乡fǎn xiāng

to return to one's home town

一去不复返yī qù bù fù fǎn

gone forever

往返wǎng fǎn

to go back and forth / to go to and fro / to do a round trip

遣返qiǎn fǎn

to repatriate (e.g. prisoners of war) / to send back

折返zhé fǎn

to turn back

返利fǎn lì

dealer incentive / sales bonus / rebate

返券黄牛fǎn quàn huáng niú

"shopping coupon scalper", sb who sells unwanted or returned shopping coupons to others for a profit

返国fǎn guó

to return to one's country

返场fǎn chǎng

to do an encore / (gaming) (of an item or character) to become available for purchase again

返家fǎn jiā

to return home

返岗fǎn gǎng

to resume one's former position (after being laid off) / to return to work (after taking leave)

返工fǎn gōng

to do poorly done work over again / (Guangdong dialect) to go to work

返港fǎn Gǎng

to return to Hong Kong

返潮fǎn cháo

(of clothing, furniture, walls etc) to get damp (by absorbing moisture from the air or the ground)

返现fǎn xiàn

(neologism c. 2009) to give a cashback reward to a consumer

返璞归真fǎn pú guī zhēn

to return to one's true self / to regain the natural state

返祖fǎn zǔ

(biology) to exhibit atavism / to revert to ancestral traits

返祖现象fǎn zǔ xiàn xiàng

(biology) atavism

返老还童fǎn lǎo huán tóng

to recover one's youthful vigor / to feel rejuvenated (idiom)

返聘fǎn pìn

to rehire retired personnel

返台fǎn Tái

to return to Taiwan

返贫fǎn pín

to fall back into poverty

返销粮fǎn xiāo liáng

grain bought by the state and resold to areas undergoing a grain shortage

返青fǎn qīng

(of plants) to turn green again / to revegetate

返点fǎn diǎn

sales bonus / affiliate reward / rebate / commission

回光返照huí guāng fǎn zhào

final radiance of setting sun / fig. dying flash (of lucidity or activity, prior to demise)

回返huí fǎn

to return / to go back / to come back

地返dì fǎn

floor monitor / foldback speaker / wedge monitor

复返fù fǎn

to come back / to return

折返跑zhé fǎn pǎo

shuttle run

归真返璞guī zhēn fǎn pú

see 返璞歸真|返璞归真[fǎn pú guī zhēn]

流连忘返liú lián wàng fǎn

to linger / to remain enjoying oneself and forget to go home

无功而返wú gōng ér fǎn

to return without any achievement (idiom) / to go home with one's tail between one's legs

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