Keyword
to return
- to go back
- to return to
- to revert
- Frequency
- #988
- Strokes
- 5
Readings
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Mnemonic
Simplified form of 歸; a wife 帚 returning home; 追 provides the pronunciation
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归
to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
回归
to return to; to retreat; regression (statistics)
归属
to belong to; to be affiliated to; to fall under the jurisdiction of; a place where one feels that one belongs; one's final destination (where one need look no further)
归还
to return sth; to revert
归来
to return; to come back
归纳
to sum up; to summarize; to conclude from facts; induction (method of deduction in logic)
归于
to belong to; affiliated to; to result in sth; to incline towards
归类
to classify; to categorize
无家可归
(idiom) homeless
归国
to go home (to one's native country); to return from abroad
归宿
place to return to; home; final destination; ending
归结
to sum up; to conclude; to put in a nutshell; conclusion; end (of a story etc)
归咎
to put the blame on; to accuse
归根结底
in the final analysis; ultimately
划归
to incorporate; to put under (external administration)
归档
to file away; to place on file
归入
to assign (to a class); to classify as; to include
归化
old name for district of Hohhot city 呼和浩特 (Hūhéhàotè), Inner Mongolia
归功
to give credit; to give sb his due; attribution
总归
in any case; anyhow; after all
终归
in the end; ultimately; after all
归顺
to surrender and pay allegiance to
归附
to realign one's allegiance (to another religion, ruler etc); to submit
同归于尽
to die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes; to take sb down with oneself; to end in mutual destruction