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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 return to / to retreat / regression (statistics)
HSK 7-9
recursion / recursive (calculation) / recurrence
(idiom) to enjoy popular support / to receive general approval
(idiom) to lose everything one invested; to lose one's shirt
to incorporate / to put under (external administration)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *歸* | 歸* | *歸
surname Gui
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
(botany) lovage / Levisticum officinale
to fail to return a borrowed item
abacus division rules (using a single-digit divisor)
same road out, different ones back
fame follows merit (idiom)
to view death as a return home / to not be afraid of dying / to face death with equanimity (idiom)
linear regression (statistics)
to return empty-handed / to fail to win anything
(literary) (of a girl) to marry
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
(idiom) to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions
to leave early and return late (idiom)
responsibility must lie where it belongs (idiom)
(idiom) to return from a rewarding journey
to return late; to come home late
anyhow; after all; eventually
different routes to the same destination (idiom); fig. different means of achieve the same end
to return home with honor
Angelica sinensis
avoid the enemy when he is fresh and strike him when he is tired and withdraws (idiom)
to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom); to return in glory
guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc) / a home away from home
(of ownership, custody etc) to be transferred to / to revert to / (medicine) clinical outcome / to reclassify (e.g. from asymptomatic carrier to confirmed case)
lit. to return east / fig. to return to one's homeland


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