归
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
5 strokes
Dict coverage rank #590 U+5F52
How 归 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Simplified form of 歸; a wife 帚 returning home; 追 provides the pronunciation
components: 彐
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How to remember it
come back · Heisig RSH #2196
saber + broom
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 归 as their sound component
These characters all use 归 (guī) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 归 sound component | guī | to return, to go back; to return to, to revert |
| 岿 | kuī | grand, stately; secure, lasting |
Words containing 归
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无家可归 | wú jiā kě guī | (idiom) homeless |
| 一命归天 | yī mìng guī tiān | see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yi1 ming4 wu1 hu1] |
| 线性回归 | xiàn xìng huí guī | linear regression (statistics) |
| 一命归西 | yī mìng guī xī | see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yi1 ming4 wu1 hu1] |
| 物归原主 | wù guī yuán zhǔ | (idiom) to return sth to its rightful owner |
| 血本无归 | xuè běn wú guī | (idiom) to lose everything one invested; to lose one's shirt |
| 空手而归 | kōng shǒu ér guī | to return empty-handed; to fail to win anything |
| 不归路 | bù guī lù | road to ruin; course of action from which there is no turning back |
| 南回归线 | Nán huí guī xiàn | Tropic of Capricorn |
| 北回归线 | Běi huí guī xiàn | Tropic of Cancer |
| 言归正传 | yán guī zhèng zhuàn | to return to the topic (idiom); to get back to the main point |
| 回归线 | huí guī xiàn | tropic; one of the two latitude lines, Tropic of Capricorn or Tropic of Cancer |
| 归国 | guī guó | to go home (to one's native country); to return from abroad |
| 归纳法 | guī nà fǎ | induction (method of deduction in logic) |
| 归心 | guī xīn | converted to (religion) |
| 回归年 | huí guī nián | the solar year; the year defined as the period between successive equinoxes |
| 归天 | guī tiān | to die |
| 海归 | hǎi guī | sb who has come back to China after gaining overseas experience (a pun on 海龜|海龟[hai3 gui1]… |
| 归化 | Guī huà | old name for district of Hohhot city 呼和浩特[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4], Inner Mongolia |
| 归化 | guī huà | naturalization |