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歸

guī

return; return to, revert to

Strokes
18
Radical
止
HSK
—
Tone
1

Simplified form: 归

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 归, the simplified form of 歸. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 它现在归我了。

    Tā xiàn zài guī wǒ le

    It belongs to me now.

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  • 归我了。

    Guī wǒ le

    Dibs.

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  • 我的成功要归功于他。

    Wǒ de chéng gōng yào guī gōng yú tā

    I owe my success to his help.

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  • 他不知道这些东西的归属。

    Tā bù zhī dào zhè xiē dōng xi de guī shǔ

    He's unaware of who possesses them.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 归

  • 归guī 1to 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
  • 归还guī huán 1–2 to return sth; to revert
  • 归纳guī nà 1–4 to sum up; to summarize; to conclude from facts; induction (method of deduction in logic)
  • 归根到底guī gēn dào dǐ 1–1–4–3after all; in the final analysis; ultimately
  • 回归huí guī 2–1 to return to; to retreat; regression (statistics)
  • 归来guī lái 1–2 to return; to come back
  • 归属guī shǔ 1–3 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)
  • 归宿guī sù 1–4 place to return to; home; final destination; ending
  • 归结guī jié 1–2 to sum up; to conclude; to put in a nutshell; conclusion; end (of a story etc)
  • 无家可归wú jiā kě guī 2–1–3–1homeless
  • 改邪归正gǎi xié guī zhèng 3–2–1–4to mend one's ways (idiom); to turn over a new leaf