回怼 (huíduì): to clap back

Meanings

1 to clap back
2 to retort
3 to fire back at (a critic, a hater)

Characters

回

to confront / push back

Examples

面对喷子，她直接在评论区回怼。

Miànduì pēnzi, tā zhíjiē zài pínglùn qū huíduì.

Faced with trolls, she clapped back directly in the comments.

他被网友嘲讽，立刻发微博回怼。

Tā bèi wǎngyǒu cháofěng, lìkè fā Wēibó huíduì.

After being mocked by netizens, he immediately fired back on Weibo.

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Internet slang. The character 怼 had been obscure in everyday speech, but exploded in popularity around 2017 to mean 'shoot down / push back'. 回怼 specifically means to push back at someone who attacked you first.

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Standard prescriptive dictionaries list the pinyin as duì, but you may also see duǐ in older sources — modern Mandarin overwhelmingly uses duì for this internet sense.