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归
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Definitions
- 1. to return
- 2. to go back to
- 3. to give back to
- 4. (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by
- 5. to belong to
- 6. to gather together
- 7. (used between two identical verbs) despite
- 8. division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
Example Sentences
1 shown归 我了。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 归
nine divide by nine is one (abacus rule)
to classify
to bring to justice
linear regression (statistics)
inference by incomplete induction
with one's heart set on speeding home (idiom)
converted to (religion)
homeless
Angelica sinensis
(literary) (of a girl) to marry
naturalization
all things tend in one direction (idiom)
to reset to zero
to leave early and return late (idiom)
to die (Buddhism)
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb)
religious convert
sb who has come back to China after gaining overseas experience (a pun on 海龜|海龟[hǎi guī])
to file away
Ground Zero
different routes to the same destination (idiom); fig. different means of achieve the same end
to stay out all night (idiom)
to surrender and pay allegiance to
ultimately
to mend one's ways (idiom)
see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yī mìng wū hū]
to return
to return home with honor
eventually
the solar year
to realign one's allegiance (to another religion, ruler etc)
recurring fever
to become reconciled
to return home with honor
to bring to justice
see 駕鶴西去|驾鹤西去[jià hè xī qù]
lit. to return the jade annulus to Zhao (idiom); fig. to return something intact to its rightful owner
to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom); to return in glory
Chinese person who returns to China after living as an expatriate
see 樹高千丈，葉落歸根|树高千丈，叶落归根[shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn]
channel tropism (TCM)
to gather
to assign (to a class)
induction (method of deduction in logic)
recursion
Gloria (section of Catholic mass)
to incorporate
to go back to one's native place and live in seclusion
Tropic of Cancer
avoid the enemy when he is fresh and strike him when he is tired and withdraws (idiom)
inductive reasoning
(botany) lovage
Tropic of Capricorn
Zigui county in Yichang 宜昌[yí chāng], Hubei
to fail to return a borrowed item
to not go home until drunk (idiom)
the way back
to die (euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise)
see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yī mìng wū hū]
see 返璞歸真|返璞归真[fǎn pú guī zhēn]
(literary) (of a married woman) to visit one's parents
to return to
fame follows merit (idiom)
sense of belonging
to return empty-handed
to return late; to come home late
responsibility must lie where it belongs (idiom)
(idiom) to lose everything one invested; to lose one's shirt
to return to one's unit
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home
to belong to
to return to one's original trade
to return
the Three Pillars of Faith (Buddha, dharma, sangha), aka 三寶|三宝[sān bǎo]
see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yī mìng wū hū]
Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by 張揚|张扬[zhāng yáng], starring 趙本山|赵本山[zhào běn shān]
abacus division rules (using a single-digit divisor)
to turn toward
reductio ad absurdum
(of ownership, custody etc) to be transferred to
to go home for a visit; to return to one's parents' home to pay respects
to die
to give credit
to sum up
Zigui county in Hubei province
to return to the right path
place to return to
to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions (idiom)
(idiom) to enjoy popular support
tropic
return trip
to belong to
to die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes
to attribute; to ascribe
to commandeer
road to ruin; course of action from which there is no turning back
guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc)
lit. to let the tiger return to the mountain; fig. to store up future calamities
Gueiren, a district in Tainan 台南|台南[tái nán], Taiwan
to remove armor and return to the farm
to give up evil and return to virtue
attribution theory (psychology)
to return something to its rightful owner
in the final analysis
to convert to (a religion)
to put sth back where it belongs
(idiom) in the final analysis
to blame sb
to return from a rewarding journey
spilt water returns to the trough (idiom); fig. people remember where they belong
after all
to go home (to one's native country)
to return sth
lit. to return east
to put together
to put the blame on
to sum up; to conclude; to put in a nutshell
to return to the topic (idiom)
to view death as a return home
Zigui county in Yichang 宜昌[yí chāng], Hubei
lit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黃泉|黄泉[huáng quán] (idiom)
inference by complete induction
right of attribution
same road out, different ones back
the joy of matrimony (polite phrase referring to a young woman)
every drop returns to the public good (idiom); not one penny is misused
to return to one's true self
the way back
long division
to return from pasture
to return home (after a lifetime's absence)