退 役

tuìyì

Meaning

(of military personnel or athletes) to retire
(of outdated equipment) to be decommissioned

Example

汤姆是一个越军退役军人。

Tom is a Vietnam veteran.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

tuìHSK 39 strokesto retreat; to withdraw yìHSK 7-97 strokesforced labor

More HSK 7-9 words

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Not to be confused with: 推移 (tuīyí, (of time) to elapse; to pass)