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歸化

简归化 · 繁歸化

Mandarin · pinyin guī huà#

naturalization

Mandarin · pinyin Guī huà#

old name for district of Hohhot city 呼和浩特 Hū hé hào tè, Inner Mongolia

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歸: Look up this written character
化: huà · change, convert, reform; -ize
归: guī · return; return to, revert to

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1–4 · gui1 hua4

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gwai1 faa3

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verb

to surrender and pay allegiance to
to assimilate
(of a foreigner) to naturalize; to be admitted to the citizenship of another country
(translation studies) to domesticate

name

(～城) Guihua (one of the two towns that merged to form Guisui, or modern Hohhot in Inner Mongolia autonomous region)
(～縣) Old name for 明溪 (Míngxī, “Mingxi County, Fujian”).

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