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歸
简 归 · 繁 歸Mandarin · pinyin guī#
Meanings · guī
- 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
Mandarin · pinyin Guī#
Meanings · Guī
- surname Gui
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1 · gui1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gwai1 · gwai6 · kwai3
Cantonese word readings for 歸. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- to return (to a place); to come back to
- to return to (a person, a status); to revert to
- to submit to; to seek patronage
- to tend towards; to converge
- to belong to
- (between identical words) to be regardless of; to treat separately
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