guī
return
Simplified form of 歸. Phonosemantic compound. 𠂤 represents the sound while 止 and 帚 represent the meaning.
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
guī
return; return to, revert to; 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
Guī
surname Gui
Most common words with 归
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to return | ||
to return to | ||
homeless | ||
to return sth | ||
to belong to |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 41.8228% of movies
1068th most common character in movies
933rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+5F52 |
Sources
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