归 guī — to return; to go back; to give back; to restore
归
Level 1 · Common HSK 6 #234
Traditional:
歸
guī gui1
Basic definition
Detailed explanation
verb
- (会意。从止，从婦省。本义:女子出嫁)
- (of a woman) get married e.g 归安 · 归宗。又特指女子被婆家休弃回家
- go back;return e.g 归槽 · 归升 · 归朝 · 归本 · 归沐
- return sth. to;give sth. back to;restore sth. to e.g 归事 · 归元 · 归俗 · 归业
- resign e.g 归耕 · 归老 · 归休 · 归卧 · 归道
- pass away e.g 归道山 · 归阴 · 归土 · 归休 · 归神
- surrender e.g 归诚 · 归首 · 归命 · 归奉王朔
- put together e.g 归注
- tend e.g 殊途同归 归止 · 归一 · 归市
- 用在重叠动词间，表示不相干或无结果。如:玩笑归玩笑，事情可得认真去办
- settle accounts
- give as a gift e.g 归衣
noun
- division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor e.g 九归
adjective
- ashamed;abashed
Related words
- 回归 to return to; to regression; to revert
- 归来 to return
- 归纳 to conclude from facts/to sum up/induction (method of deduction in logic)
- 归宿 home; final destination; end result; fate
- 归还 to return; to give back; to restore; to revert; to hand back; to restitute
- 归根 to return to one's roots
- 归结 to boil down to; to end up as
- 归侨 returned overseas Chinese
- 归属 to belong to; ownership
- 归根到底 in the final analysis; after all; ultimately
- 归国 to return to one's country
- 归于 to belong to/affiliated to/to result in sth/to incline towards
- 归根结底 in the final analysis; after all is said and done
- 归功 to give credit to; to attribute success to
- 归功于 to credit to
- 海归 returnee from overseas; overseas-returned talent
- 归案 to bring to justice (of malefactor)/arrested and brought to trial
- 无家可归 homeless; destitute
- 终归 in the end; ultimately; after all
- 归队 to return to one's unit