Onyomi: タイ · Kunyomi: しりぞ.く, しりぞ.ける, ど.く, の.く, の.ける, ひ.く · Meanings: expel, reject, repel, resign, retire, retreat, withdraw
Kanji for expel, reject, repel, resign, retire
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退 is made from 辶, meaning “to move” or “road,” and 艮, which has the sense of stopping or turning back. Together, they show movement that does not go forward but instead pulls away. From this idea of changing direction and stepping away, 退 came to mean to retreat, withdraw, or move back.
Instead of going forward, you turn and move away. That act of pulling back is 退.
Follow the road, then stop and turn back. Moving away instead of forward is 退.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 退屈 | たいくつ | tedious, boring, dull, uninteresting, tiresome, monotonous | common JLPT-N3 Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun |
| 下がる | さがる | to come down, to go down, to fall, to drop, to sink, to get lower | common JLPT-N4 JLPT-N1 Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Intransitive verb |
| 退院 | たいいん | leaving hospital, discharge from hospital | common JLPT-N4 JLPT-N2 Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 退学 | たいがく | dropping out of school, withdrawal from school | common JLPT-N1 Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 辞める | やめる | to resign, to retire, to quit, to leave (one's job, etc.) | common JLPT-N3 Ichidan verb, Transitive verb |
| 退職 | たいしょく | retirement, resignation | common JLPT-N1 Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 退治 | たいじ | extermination, elimination, eradication, destruction, suppression, subjugation, getting rid of, stamping out, wiping out, rooting out | common JLPT-N1 Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 退く | しりぞく | to step back, to move back, to retreat | common JLPT-N1 Godan verb with 'ku' ending, Intransitive verb |
| 退く | どく | to step aside, to move (i.e. out of the way), to make way | common JLPT-N2 Godan verb with 'ku' ending, Intransitive verb |
| 退ける | しりぞける | to refuse, to reject, to turn down, to dismiss | JLPT-N1 Ichidan verb, Transitive verb |
| 退社 | たいしゃ | resignation, leaving office | common Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 退役 | たいえき | retiring from military service | common Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |
| 退官 | たいかん | retirement from office | common Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 退陣 | たいじん | resignation, stepping down, retirement | common Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb |
| 退去 | たいきょ | departure, leaving, going away, evacuation | common Noun, Suru verb, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |