返去

返去

Chinese

		to return (to)	to go; to leave; to remove
trad. (返去)		返	去
simp. #(返去)		返	去
alternative forms		翻去

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan¹ heoi³
• Min Nan (POJ): hoán-khì

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan¹ heoi³
    • Yale: fāan heui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan¹ hoey³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan¹ hêu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn⁵⁵ hɵy̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoán-khì
    • Tâi-lô: huán-khì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoafnqix
    • IPA (Philippines): /huan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kʰi⁴¹/

Verb

返去

1. (Cantonese, Philippines and Singapore Hokkien) to return; to go back; to go; to leave
2. (Cantonese) to go back (used after a verb to indicate direction away from speaker)

   行返去 [Cantonese]  ―  haang⁴ faan¹ heoi³ [Jyutping]  ―  to walk back

Synonyms

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

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		回去
Mandarin	Beijing	回去
	Taiwan	回去
	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
Min Nan	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)	返去, 轉去, balik
	Manila (Hokkien)	倒去, 返去, 斡去
	Shantou	轉去
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	轉去
Wu	Shanghai	回去, 轉去

Antonyms

• 返嚟

Derived terms

• 返來返去／返来返去