Kanji N3

退: retreat, withdraw, retire

退 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning retreat, withdraw, retire, written with 9 strokes. It is read タイ (on) and しりぞく, しりぞける, ひく (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 6. You will see it in 引退 (いんたい, retirement) and 退院 (たいいん, leaving hospital).

退

Meanings

  • retreat
  • withdraw
  • retire
  • resign
  • repel
  • expel
  • reject
Strokes9
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 6
Frequency#424 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • タイ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • しりぞく
  • しりぞける
  • ひく
  • のく
  • のける
  • どく

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 退

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 引退いんたい

    retirement

    JLPT N3
  • 退院たいいん

    leaving hospital; discharge from hospital

    JLPT N4
  • 退屈たいくつ

    tedious; boring; dull; uninteresting; tiresome

    JLPT N3
  • 退職たいしょく

    retirement; resignation

    JLPT N1
  • 後退こうたい

    retreat; falling back; moving backwards

    JLPT N1
  • 辞退じたい

    declining; refusal; nonacceptance; turning down

    JLPT N1
  • 脱退だったい

    withdrawal (e.g. from an organization)

    JLPT N1
  • 退学たいがく

    dropping out of school; withdrawal from school

    JLPT N1

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