Chinese Word: 褪 - Talking Chinese English Dictionary

褪Polyphone (多音字)

Total strokes: 16; Radical: 衣

Ideographic:Th take off 退 clothing 衤; 退 also provides the pronunciation

Character Formation:

⿰ Left to right
- 衤 [ yī ] cloth
- 退 [ tuì ] to retreat, to step back, to withdraw

Similar Characters: 襚

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Pinyin: tuì

English Definition:to take off (clothes); to shed feathers; (of color) to fade; to discolor

Example Words:

褪色	tuì sè	to fade (of colors); also pr. [tui4 shai3]
褪光	tuì guāng	matte (of a color etc)
褪去	tuì qù	to take off (one's clothes); (fig.) to shed (one's former image etc); (of a fad or the after-effects of a disaster etc) to subside; also pr. [tun4 qu4]

Pinyin: tùn

English Definition:to slip out of sth; to hide sth in one's sleeve

Chinese Definition:
①使穿着的衣服或套着的东西脱离：把袖子褪下来。
②向内退缩而藏起来：把手褪在袖子里。
③后退，逃脱：不要遇事就往后褪。

Example Words:

褪后趋前	tùn hòu qū qián	to rush about to show eagerness to serve (idiom)
褪下	tùn xià	to take off (trousers); to drop one's pants
褪套儿	tùn tào r	(coll.) to break loose; to shake off responsibility

1		yáng guāng 阳光 shài dé 晒得 guà tǎn 挂毯 tùn 褪 le 了 sè 色。 Sunlight faded the tapestry.
2		yáng guāng 阳光 shài dé 晒得 chuāng lián 窗帘 tuì 褪 le 了 sè 色。 The sun has faded the curtains.
3		yán jiū 研究 rén yuán 人员 huái yí 怀疑 tuì hēi sù 褪黑素 yǐng xiǎng 影响 xué xí 学习 hé 和 jì yì 记忆。 They wondered if melatonin played a role in learning and memory.
4		zài 在 wǒ 我 suǒ 所 jiàn dào 见到 de 的 dà bù fen 大部分 guān cè zhàn 观测站 zhōng 中， yù jǐng 预警 biāo zhì 标识 dōu 都 tuì 褪 chéng 成 le 了 bái sè 白色。 At most of the stations I saw, every flag had faded to white.
5		rú guǒ 如果 nǐ 你 wǎng 往 xī fēi 西飞， zhǐ yào 只要 zài 在 mù dì dì 目的地 shuì jiào 睡觉 zhī qián 之前 chī 吃 yī kē 一颗 tuì 褪 hēi sè sù 黑色素 jiù 就 gòu 够 le 了。 If you' re headed west, take a single melatonin capsule just before bed at your destination.

1		yáng guāng 阳光 shài dé 晒得 guà tǎn 挂毯 tùn 褪 le 了 sè 色。 Sunlight faded the tapestry.
2		yáng guāng 阳光 shài dé 晒得 chuāng lián 窗帘 tuì 褪 le 了 sè 色。 The sun has faded the curtains.
3		yán jiū 研究 rén yuán 人员 huái yí 怀疑 tuì hēi sù 褪黑素 yǐng xiǎng 影响 xué xí 学习 hé 和 jì yì 记忆。 They wondered if melatonin played a role in learning and memory.
4		zài 在 wǒ 我 suǒ 所 jiàn dào 见到 de 的 dà bù fen 大部分 guān cè zhàn 观测站 zhōng 中， yù jǐng 预警 biāo zhì 标识 dōu 都 tuì 褪 chéng 成 le 了 bái sè 白色。 At most of the stations I saw, every flag had faded to white.
5		rú guǒ 如果 nǐ 你 wǎng 往 xī fēi 西飞， zhǐ yào 只要 zài 在 mù dì dì 目的地 shuì jiào 睡觉 zhī qián 之前 chī 吃 yī kē 一颗 tuì 褪 hēi sè sù 黑色素 jiù 就 gòu 够 le 了。 If you' re headed west, take a single melatonin capsule just before bed at your destination.