Chinese word dictionary

衰退

shuāituì · to decline; to fall; to drop; to falter; a decline; recession (in economics)

Practice word

Word information

Simplified衰退

Traditional衰退

Pinyinshuāituì

Part of speech动

HSK 3.07-9

HSK 2.06

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

衰shuāi

weak, feeble; to decline, to falter

退tuì

to retreat, to step back, to withdraw

How to learn 衰退

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Related vocabulary

Words with the same characters

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退tuì

to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline

退出tuìchū

to withdraw; to abort; to quit; to log out (computing)

退还tuìhuán

to return (sth borrowed etc); to send back; to refund; to rebate

退休tuìxiū

to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement

后退hòutuì

to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat

衰老shuāilǎo

to age; to deteriorate with age; old and weak