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Trad. 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
Trad. 海歸
- sb who has come back to China after gaining overseas experience (a pun on 海龜|海龟[hai3 gui1])
- to return to China after a period of study or work overseas
Trad. 轉歸
- (of ownership, custody etc) to be transferred to
- to revert to
- (medicine) clinical outcome
- to reclassify (e.g. from asymptomatic carrier to confirmed case)
Trad. 歸位
- to put sth back where it belongs
- to return to the original position
- to return to one's seat (in a classroom)
Trad. 歸僑
- Chinese person who returns to China after living as an expatriate
Trad. 歸化
- old name for district of Hohhot city 呼和浩特[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4], Inner Mongolia
Trad. 歸口
- 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)
Trad. 歸屬
- 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)
Trad. 歸根
- to return home (after a lifetime's absence)
- to go back to one's roots
Trad. 歸正
- to return to the right path
- to mend one's ways
- to reform
- Reformed (church etc)
Trad. 歸省
- to go home for a visit; to return to one's parents' home to pay respects
Trad. 歸納
- to sum up
- to summarize
- to conclude from facts
- induction (method of deduction in logic)
Trad. 歸結
- to sum up; to conclude; to put in a nutshell
- conclusion; end (of a story etc)
Trad. 歸綏
- old name for Hohhot city 呼和浩特[Hu1 he2 hao4 te4], Inner Mongolia
Trad. 歸西
- to die (euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise)
Trad. 歸附
- to realign one's allegiance (to another religion, ruler etc)
- to submit
Trad. 歸零
- to reset to zero
- (fig.) to start again from scratch; to go back to square one
Trad. 不歸路
- road to ruin; course of action from which there is no turning back
Trad. 三歸依
- the Three Pillars of Faith (Buddha, dharma, sangha), aka 三寶|三宝[san1 bao3]
Trad. 秭歸縣
- Zigui, a county in Yichang City 宜昌市[Yi2 chang1 Shi4], Hubei
Trad. 回歸年
- the solar year
- the year defined as the period between successive equinoxes
Trad. 回歸線
- tropic
- one of the two latitude lines, Tropic of Capricorn or Tropic of Cancer
Trad. 歸謬法
- reductio ad absurdum
- arguing by contradiction
- also called 反證法|反证法
Trad. 鎩羽而歸
- (idiom) to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions
Trad. 眾望所歸
- (idiom) to enjoy popular support
- to receive general approval
Trad. 早出晚歸
- to leave early and return late (idiom)
Trad. 同途殊歸
- same road out, different ones back
Trad. 滿載而歸
- (idiom) to return from a rewarding journey
Trad. 言歸於好
- to become reconciled
- to bury the hatchet
Trad. 言歸正傳
- to return to the topic (idiom)
- to get back to the main point
Trad. 返璞歸真
- to return to one's true self
- to regain the natural state
Trad. 視死如歸
- to view death as a return home
- to not be afraid of dying
- to face death with equanimity (idiom)
Trad. 縱虎歸山
- lit. to let the tiger return to the mountain; fig. to store up future calamities
Trad. 反璞歸真
- variant of 返璞歸真|返璞归真[fan3 pu2 gui1 zhen1]
Trad. 賓至如歸
- guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc)
- a home away from home
Trad. 不醉不歸
- lit. to not go home until drunk (idiom)
- fig. let's make a night of it!
Trad. 涓滴歸公
- every drop returns to the public good (idiom); not one penny is misused
Trad. 九九歸一
- nine divide by nine is one (abacus rule)
- when all is said and done
Trad. 殊途同歸
- different routes to the same destination (idiom); fig. different means of achieve the same end
Trad. 落葉歸根
- Getting Home, 2007 PRC comedy-drama film directed by 張揚|张扬[Zhang1 Yang2], starring 趙本山|赵本山[Zhao4 Ben3 shan1]
Trad. 落葉歸根
- 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
Trad. 空手而歸
- to return empty-handed
- to fail to win anything
Trad. 解甲歸田
- to remove armor and return to the farm
- to return to civilian life
Trad. 改邪歸正
- to mend one's ways (idiom)
- to turn over a new leaf
Trad. 責有攸歸
- responsibility must lie where it belongs (idiom)
Trad. 衣錦榮歸
- to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom); to return in glory
Trad. 水落歸槽
- spilt water returns to the trough (idiom); fig. people remember where they belong
Trad. 久假不歸
- to fail to return a borrowed item
Trad. 血本無歸
- (idiom) to lose everything one invested; to lose one's shirt
Trad. 歸心似箭
- with one's heart set on speeding home (idiom)
Trad. 歸根到底
- after all
- in the final analysis
- ultimately
Trad. 物歸原主
- (idiom) to return sth to its rightful owner
Trad. 葉落歸根
- a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom); everything has its ancestral home
- In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.
Trad. 歸根結柢
- variant of 歸根結底|归根结底[gui1 gen1 jie2 di3]
Trad. 歸根結蒂
- ultimately
- in the final analysis
- after all
- when all is said and done
Trad. 一命歸天
- see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yi1 ming4 wu1 hu1]
Trad. 一命歸西
- see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yi1 ming4 wu1 hu1]
Trad. 一命歸陰
- see 一命嗚呼|一命呜呼[yi1 ming4 wu1 hu1]
Trad. 百川歸海
- all things tend in one direction (idiom)
Trad. 棄邪歸正
- to give up evil and return to virtue
Trad. 歸真返璞
- see 返璞歸真|返璞归真[fan3 pu2 gui1 zhen1]
Trad. 完璧歸趙
- lit. to return the jade annulus to Zhao (idiom); fig. to return something intact to its rightful owner
Trad. 同歸於盡
- to die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes
- to take sb down with oneself
- to end in mutual destruction
Trad. 顆粒歸倉
- to gather all the harvested grain into the granary; to harvest every single grain
Trad. 命歸黃泉
- lit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黃泉|黄泉[Huang2 quan2] (idiom)
- fig. to die
- to meet one's end
Trad. 于歸之喜
- the joy of matrimony (polite phrase referring to a young woman)
Trad. 完全歸納推理
- inference by complete induction
Trad. 不完全歸納推理
- inference by incomplete induction
Trad. 樹高千丈，落葉歸根
- see 樹高千丈，葉落歸根|树高千丈，叶落归根[shu4 gao1 qian1 zhang4 , ye4 luo4 gui1 gen1]
Trad. 樹高千丈，葉落歸根
- 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
Trad. 避其銳氣，擊其惰歸
- avoid the enemy when he is fresh and strike him when he is tired and withdraws (idiom)