guī

return; return to, revert to

DEFINITIONS

歸 guī
  • surname Gui
  • 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

WORDS

真 guī zhēn to die (Buddhism)
真返璞 guī zhēn fǎn pú see 返璞歸真|返璞归真[fan3 pu2 gui1 zhen1]
程 guī chéng return trip; homeward journey
納 guī nà to sum up; to summarize; to conclude from facts; induction (method of deduction in logic)
納推理 guī nà tuī lǐ inductive reasoning
納法 guī nà fǎ induction (method of deduction in logic)
結 guī jié to sum up; to conclude; in a nutshell; the end (of a story)
綏 guī suí old name for Hohhot city 呼和浩特[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4], Inner Mongolia
經 guī jīng channel tropism (TCM)
罪 guī zuì to blame sb
西 guī xī to die; euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise
謬法 guī miù fǎ reductio ad absurdum; arguing by contradiction; also called 反證法|反证法
路 guī lù the way back; return route
途 guī tú the way back; one's journey home
還 guī huán to return sth; to revert
附 guī fù to realign one's allegiance (to another religion, ruler etc); to submit
除 guī chú long division; calculation on the abacus
隊 guī duì to return to one's unit; to go back to one's station in life
隱 guī yǐn to go back to one's native place and live in seclusion
零地 guī líng dì Ground Zero
順 guī shùn to surrender and pay allegiance to
類 guī lèi to classify; to categorize
殊途同 shū tú tóng guī different routes to the same destination (idiom); fig. different means of achieve the same end
水落槽 shuǐ luò guī cáo spilt water returns to the trough (idiom); fig. people remember where they belong
hǎi guī sb who has come back to China after gaining overseas experience (a pun on 海龜|海龟[hai3 gui1]); to return to China after a period of study or work overseas