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轉歸

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Mandarin · pinyin zhuǎn guī

(of ownership, custody etc) to be transferred to
to revert to
(medicine) clinical outcome
to reclassify (e.g. from asymptomatic carrier to confirmed case)

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转: zhuǎn · shift, move, turn
归: guī · return; return to, revert to

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3–1 · zhuan3 gui1

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verb

(medicine, of disease) to progress (either positively or negatively)
(neologism, medicine) to reclassify (e.g. from an asymptomatic carrier to a confirmed case due to the occurrence of symptoms)

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