回城 (huí chéng) — (verb) to return to the city; (historically) for sent-down urban youth to return from the countryside

Definition

Examples

• 很多知青直到七十年代末才回城。
  Hěn duō zhī qīng zhí dào qī shí nián dài mò cái huí chéng.
  Many sent-down youth did not return to the city until the late 1970s.
• 他回城后找了一份工厂的工作。
  Tā huí chéng hòu zhǎo le yí fèn gōng chǎng de gōng zuò.
  After returning to the city, he found a factory job.
• 我在乡下待了两年，只回城一次城。
  Wǒ zài xiāng xia dài le liǎng nián, zhī huí chéng yí cì chéng.
  I stayed in the countryside for two years and only went back to the city once.

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