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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *歸* | 歸* | *歸
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
HSK 4
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)
HSK 7-9
to return / to come back
HSK 7-9
to return to / to retreat / regression (statistics)
HSK 7-9
to return sth / to revert
HSK 7-9
to sum up / to summarize / to conclude from facts / induction (method of deduction in logic)
HSK 7-9
place to return to / home / final destination / ending
HSK 7-9
after all / in the final analysis / ultimately
HSK 7-9
to mend one's ways (idiom) / to turn over a new leaf
HSK 7-9
to sum up; to conclude; to put in a nutshell / conclusion; end (of a story etc)
HSK 7-9
to attribute; to ascribe
to put sth back where it belongs / to return to the original position / to return to one's seat (in a classroom)
road to ruin; course of action from which there is no turning back
(idiom) to enjoy popular support / to receive general approval
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *歸* | 歸* | *歸
surname Gui
to return to one's unit / to go back to one's station in life
Gueiren, a district in Tainan 台南, Taiwan
to reset to zero / (fig.) to start again from scratch; to go back to square one
to classify / to categorize
to incorporate / to put under (external administration)
anyhow; after all; eventually
to belong to / affiliated to / to result in sth / to incline towards
to put together / to add / to merge
Angelica sinensis
the way back / return route
the way back / one's journey home
in the final analysis / ultimately
to file away / to place on file
to blame sb
to die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes / to take sb down with oneself / to end in mutual destruction
to put the blame on / to accuse
different routes to the same destination (idiom); fig. different means of achieve the same end
guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc) / a home away from home
(idiom) to lose everything one invested; to lose one's shirt
(idiom) to return from a rewarding journey
Tropic of Cancer
to leave early and return late (idiom)
to go back to one's native place and live in seclusion
to return to the topic (idiom) / to get back to the main point
to go home (to one's native country) / to return from abroad
to bring to justice / to file away (a document)
to die (euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise)
to turn toward
(idiom) homeless
to return home with honor
to return to the right path / to mend one's ways / to reform / Reformed (church etc)
(idiom) in the final analysis
recurring fever
Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by 張揚|张扬, starring 趙本山|赵本山
lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / fig. all things go back to their source eventually / in old age, an expatriate returns home
with one's heart set on speeding home (idiom)
to die (Buddhism) / to return to Allah (Islam)
recursion / recursive (calculation) / recurrence
(literary) (of a girl) to marry
to give credit / to give sb his due / attribution
old name for Hohhot city 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia
Zigui county in Yichang 宜昌, Hubei
(literary) (of a married woman) to visit one's parents
induction (method of deduction in logic)
to return to one's original trade / to put (a business etc) under the administration of the relevant central authority / (the) relevant (department in charge of sth)
to return home (after a lifetime's absence) / to go back to one's roots
Chinese person who returns to China after living as an expatriate
to commandeer / to take over for the state
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
fame follows merit (idiom)
to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom); to return in glory
Tropic of Capricorn
to realign one's allegiance (to another religion, ruler etc) / to submit
to become reconciled / to bury the hatchet
converted to (religion)
Zigui county in Yichang 宜昌, Hubei
nine divide by nine is one (abacus rule) / when all is said and done
to return to one's true self / to regain the natural state
to go home for a visit; to return to one's parents' home to pay respects
to view death as a return home / to not be afraid of dying / to face death with equanimity (idiom)
(idiom) to return sth to its rightful owner
lit. to return the jade annulus to Zhao (idiom); fig. to return something intact to its rightful owner
to gather / to rake together / to pile up
the solar year / the year defined as the period between successive equinoxes
(coll.) to put (things) back; to tidy up; to put in order
to remove armor and return to the farm / to return to civilian life
old name for district of Hohhot city 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia
naturalization
all things tend in one direction (idiom)
to die
lit. to let the tiger return to the mountain; fig. to store up future calamities
the Three Pillars of Faith (Buddha, dharma, sangha), aka 三寶|三宝
to surrender and pay allegiance to
to give up evil and return to virtue
every drop returns to the public good (idiom); not one penny is misused
to assign (to a class) / to classify as / to include
tropic / one of the two latitude lines, Tropic of Capricorn or Tropic of Cancer
to convert to (a religion) / to rely upon / refuge / mainstay
return trip / homeward journey
abacus division rules (using a single-digit divisor)
lit. to return east / fig. to return to one's homeland
reductio ad absurdum / arguing by contradiction / also called 反證法|反证法
long division / calculation on the abacus
to fail to return a borrowed item

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