退缩 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 退縮 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. tuìsuō ㄊㄨㄟˋ ㄙㄨㄛ to shrink back to cower Character by character 退(tuì)retreat 缩(suō)withdraw A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT