guī

to return; to go back to; to belong to

HSK 5 #933

Character data

HSK 5
Frequency 933rd character
Radical ⼹ (58.2)
Strokes 5
Index # 234
TRADITIONAL

Definitions

归 guī
  1. 1. to return
  2. 2. to go back to
  3. 3. to belong to
  4. 4. (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by
  5. 5. to give back to
  6. 6. to gather together
  7. 7. (used between two identical verbs) despite
  8. 8. surname Gui
  9. 9. to marry (of a woman) (old)
  10. 10. division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor

Stroke order

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归 stroke order animation

Words containing 归

Word Meaning
fig. to return to one's homeland; lit. to return east
to give up evil and return to virtue
Gloria (section of Catholic mass)
to return home with honor
No matter how far you go, you return home
no matter how far you go, you return home
Levisticum officinale; (botany) lovage
Guiren, a district in Tainan, Taiwan
Guiren Township in Tainan, Taiwan
Chinese who returned from abroad
to take over for the state; to commandeer
naturalization
(the) relevant (department in charge of sth)
to turn toward
to attribute; to ascribe
attribution theory (psychology)
(literary) (of a married woman) to visit one's parents
right of attribution
religious convert
to go back to one's roots
ultimately; in the final analysis; after all
to reform; to mend one's ways; to return to the right path
to return from pasture
to go home for a visit