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

归 stroke order diagram
归 stroke order animation

Words containing 归

Word Meaning
to die (Buddhism)
inductive reasoning
induction (method of deduction in logic)
old name of Hohhot in Inner Mongolia
channel tropism (TCM)
arguing by contradiction; reductio ad absurdum
the way back; return route
calculation on the abacus; long division
Ground Zero
people return to where they belong
to return to China after a period of study or work overseas
every cent to public use; no misuse
all things tend in one direction (idiom)
Zigui county in Yichang yí chāng, Hubei
Zigui county in Yichang yí chāng, Hubei
to return empty-handed; to fail to win anything
linear regression (statistics)
let an enemy go; cause later trouble
return home in old age; go back to one’s roots
return home in glory; come back successful
to remove armor and return to the farm
to become reconciled; to bury the hatchet
responsibility must lie where it belongs (idiom)
recursion; recursive (calculation); recurrence