HSK 6 · Verbs

还原 huányuán “to restore” in Chinese

Traditional 還原

What 还原 means

  1. to restore
  2. to reduce (chemistry)
  3. to restore to the original state
  4. to reconstruct (an event)
  5. reduction (chemistry)

How to say 还原

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale还huán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale原yuán2nd tone, rising

还原 in a sentence

  1. 这部电影还原了当时的生活。

    Zhè bù diànyǐng huányuán le dāngshí de shēnghuó.

    This film recreates life at the time.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 电脑可以还原到原来的设置。

    Diànnǎo kěyǐ huányuán dào yuánlái de shèzhì.

    The computer can be restored to its original settings.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 还原 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 还 (hái) with each of its parts in a different colour
还huánto pay back
  • 不no · bù
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuò

Memory aidWalk 辶 back again: to return (huán). Read hái, it means “still”.

The character 原 (yuán) with each of its parts in a different colour
原yuánformer
  • 厂cliff · hǎnMeaning part
  • 泉spring · quánSound part

厂 hints at the meaning (cliff); 泉 (quán) hints at the sound. Compare it with yuán.

How to write 还原

还 7 strokes · 原 10 strokes

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还原 (huányuán) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 还原 (huányuán). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 还原

Words with 还

还hái · still还是háishi · or讨价还价tǎojiàhuánjià · to bargain归还guīhuán · to return (something)偿还chánghuán · to repay

Words with 原

原谅yuánliàng · to excuse原因yuányīn · cause原来yuánlái · original原料yuánliào · raw material原则yuánzé · principle原先yuánxiān · originally平原píngyuán · plain原始yuánshǐ · original原告yuángào · plaintiff原理yuánlǐ · principle

More words: Common Verbs

合并hébìng · to merge划分huàfēn · to divide晃huàng · to sway缓和huǎnhé · to ease回避huíbì · to avoid毁灭huǐmiè · to destroy混合hùnhé · to mix加剧jiājù · to intensify

FAQs

还原 (huányuán) means “to restore” or “to reduce (chemistry)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it huányuán: huán with a 2nd tone, then yuán with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 还原 is written 還原. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huanyuan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 还原 from the suggestions. Typing huanyuan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
还原 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.