Kanji1 / 9
退 kanji
retreat, withdraw, retire, resign, repel, expel, reject
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
タイ
Kun readings
しりぞくしりぞけるひくのくのけるどく
Words with 退
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —自主退職voluntary retirement
- —早期退職early retirement
- —引退相撲exhibition match held at a wrestler's retirement ceremony
- —挙措進退behavior; bearing; demeanor
- —寸進尺退one step forward, many steps backward; little to gain and much to lose
- —人倫退廃decline (decay, corruption) of ethical standards
- —風紀退廃decay (decline, corruption) of public morals; moral decadence
- —円満退職amicable resignation (retirement); resigning (retiring) from one's job of one's free will
- —怨敵退散invoking disaster upon one's mortal enemy; Confusion to the enemy!
- —進退去就one's course of action; deciding what to do with oneself, whether staying in the present position or leaving it
- —進退問題a question of whether or not someone should resign
- —進退両難being driven to the wall; finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea; finding oneself between a rock and a hard place
- —全面撤退total (full-scale) withdrawal; complete pullout (pullback)
- —退嬰主義backward-looking philosophy (ideology); conservatism
- —退嬰政策conservative (regressive) policy
- —退勢挽回restoring the declining fortunes; recovering from the discouraging situation; reversing the downward trend
- —道徳退廃moral decadence (decline, corruption)
- —退形成性anaplastic
- —二進一退two steps forward, one step back
- —食欲減退decrease in appetite; loss of appetite