反馈

• Pinyin: fǎn kuì
• Hanzi breakdown: 反 = 厂 + 又 (reversal/against); 馈 = 饣 + 贵 (food radical + precious — to present an offering)

Meaning

Feedback; to give feedback. The act of relaying responses or results back to a source, enabling adjustment or improvement.

Used in education, business, technology, and interpersonal contexts. 反馈 can function as both a noun and a verb. Often collocates with 及时、积极、负面、用户 etc. Central to quality-improvement cycles in professional settings.

Examples

1. 教师在批改作文后应当及时向学生反馈批改意见，让他们在记忆尚新之时对自己的写作问题有清晰的认识并加以改进。 After grading essays, teachers should promptly give students feedback on their revisions so that, while the work is still fresh, they can clearly understand their writing issues and improve.
2. 产品团队通过系统收集用户的使用体验反馈，结合数据分析结果，对下一版本的功能优先级作出了更具针对性的调整。 By systematically collecting feedback on user experience and combining it with data analysis, the product team made more targeted adjustments to the feature priorities for the next release.
3. 管理层在季度复盘会议上要求各部门负责人对上一阶段执行情况进行详细反馈，以便识别流程中的瓶颈并制定改进方案。 At the quarterly review meeting, senior management asked department heads to provide detailed feedback on execution in the previous phase so bottlenecks could be identified and an improvement plan developed.

Usage Guide

Context: education, business, technology

Tone: neutral

Do Say

• 请在收到报告后的48小时内向我反馈您的修改建议，以便我们在截止日期前完成终稿。(Please give me your revision suggestions within 48 hours of receiving the report, so we can finalise the draft before the deadline.)
• 应用上线后收到大量负面反馈，主要集中在界面和加载速度上。(After launch, the app received much negative feedback, mainly about the interface and loading speed.)

Don't Say

• 反馈意见给我一下 — overly colloquial; prefer 请向我提供反馈 or 请将意见反馈给我 in professional contexts

Origin & History

反 (back/return) + 馈 (to transmit/offer) — to send information back to its source

Cultural Context

Generation: All ages

Social background: Universal