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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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 sum up / to summarize / to conclude from facts / induction (method of deduction in logic)
HSK 7-9
to return to / to retreat / regression (statistics)
HSK 7-9
to give up evil and return to virtue
recursion / recursive (calculation) / recurrence
to return / to come back
HSK 7-9
place to return to / home / final destination / ending
HSK 7-9
a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
to sum up; to conclude; to put in a nutshell / conclusion; end (of a story etc)
HSK 7-9
to attribute; to ascribe
to return sth / to revert
HSK 7-9
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
(idiom) to enjoy popular support / to receive general approval
inductive reasoning
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
to mend one's ways (idiom) / to turn over a new leaf
HSK 7-9
Chinese person who returns to China after living as an expatriate
(idiom) to lose everything one invested; to lose one's shirt
after all / in the final analysis / ultimately
HSK 7-9
to incorporate / to put under (external administration)
to die (euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise)
to return to the topic (idiom) / to get back to the main point
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *歸* | 歸* | *歸
surname Gui
inference by incomplete induction
to surrender and pay allegiance to
ultimately / in the final analysis / after all / when all is said and done
lit. to not go home until drunk (idiom) / fig. let's make a night of it!
to return / to come back
(idiom) homeless
HSK 7-9
Tropic of Capricorn
the way back / one's journey home
nine divide by nine is one (abacus rule) / when all is said and done
to go home (to one's native country) / to return from abroad
to return home with honor
to put the blame on / to accuse
(idiom) in the final analysis
to bring to justice / to file away (a document)
the way back / return route
Tropic of Cancer
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 assign (to a class) / to classify as / to include
converted to (religion)
with one's heart set on speeding home (idiom)
to put sth back where it belongs / to return to the original position / to return to one's seat (in a classroom)
in the final analysis / ultimately
to classify / to categorize
to remove armor and return to the farm / to return to civilian life
(botany) lovage / Levisticum officinale
lit. to let the tiger return to the mountain; fig. to store up future calamities
Zigui, a county in Yichang City 宜昌市, Hubei
tropic / one of the two latitude lines, Tropic of Capricorn or Tropic of Cancer
to stay out all night (idiom)
to turn toward
old name for district of Hohhot city 呼和浩特, Inner Mongolia
naturalization
to fail to return a borrowed item
to go home for a visit; to return to one's parents' home to pay respects
recurring fever
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)
abacus division rules (using a single-digit divisor)
same road out, different ones back
to gather / to rake together / to pile up
induction (method of deduction in logic)
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
fame follows merit (idiom)
to die
to view death as a return home / to not be afraid of dying / to face death with equanimity (idiom)
return trip / homeward journey
to bring to justice
to belong to / affiliated to / to result in sth / to incline towards
one's return date
to return home (after a lifetime's absence) / to go back to one's roots
linear regression (statistics)
to return to one's unit / to go back to one's station in life
(literary) (of a married woman) to visit one's parents
the Three Pillars of Faith (Buddha, dharma, sangha), aka 三寶|三宝
the solar year / the year defined as the period between successive equinoxes
Gloria (section of Catholic mass)
to give credit / to give sb his due / attribution
sense of belonging
right of attribution
channel tropism (TCM)
long division / calculation on the abacus
to return empty-handed / to fail to win anything
to gather all the harvested grain into the granary; to harvest every single grain
(literary) (of a girl) to marry
to file away / to place on file
to convert to (a religion) / to rely upon / refuge / mainstay
(idiom) to return sth to its rightful owner
to return to one's true self / to regain the natural state
the joy of matrimony (polite phrase referring to a young woman)
(coll.) to put (things) back; to tidy up; to put in order
to realign one's allegiance (to another religion, ruler etc) / to submit
sb who has come back to China after gaining overseas experience (a pun on 海龜|海龟) / to return to China after a period of study or work overseas

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