回
Meaning
- to go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around
- to reply; to answer
- classifier for literary divisions (acts of a play, sections or chapters of a classic book)
Example sentence
天日渐回暖。
It's getting warmer day by day.
The character 回
回 draws one square inside another, a spiral turning back on itself. To return — 回家, 回来, 回去, 回国 — and then to answer, since a reply comes back: 回答, 回复.