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退 means 'retreat'

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Strokes : 9    Frequency: 601   JLPT: N3    Usefulness: 3    Study set: 3-14    Grade: 5   Intermediate lesson: 28    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 94 words   Used in 201 words   Used in 26 names   Component in 2 kanji (0 Jōyō)
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Common readings
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   タイ
Kun
   しりぞく to retreat, back off   しりぞける to repel
Additional readings
Kun    ひく   どく   どかす to (re)move (something)   のける   どける to remove, move (something) out of the way   のく to move out of the way
Components
⿺  ⻌ (辵) move  艮 (良) good  
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Most useful words by reading
In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 退 is used 20 times, read 2 ways.
Across all words in Japanese, 退 is used 190 times, read 5 ways.
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タイ : 156 words FIND ALL
い ん た い 0
retire
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のける : 22 words FIND ALL
そ こ の け 0
noun (suffix)
1. superior to (e.g. professional, etc. in ability or achievement)  (see also: 裸足; often written with kana only)
noun
2. ignoring (one thing) for (another)  (see also: 其方退け; often written with kana only)
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しりぞく : 6 words FIND ALL
し り ぞ く 3
'ku' godan verb, intransitive verb
1. to step back; to move back
2. to leave (the presence of a superior); to withdraw; to retreat; to concede
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ひく : 4 words FIND ALL
'ku' godan verb, intransitive verb
1. to move back; to draw back; to recede  (also written as 引く)
2. to lessen; to subside; to ebb
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どく : 2 words FIND ALL
ど か す 0
'su' godan verb, transitive verb
to remove; to move out of the way  (often written with kana only)
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An additional 11 less common words include 退 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
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Additional data
Henshall: 769 (originally: 746)  Joy o' Kanji : 746  Key to Kanji: 701 

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退
タイ   しりぞく to retreat, back off   しりぞける to repel   
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艮
good
⻌
move
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