guī
return
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)Regular 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 歸
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to return | ||
to return to | ||
homeless | ||
to return sth | ||
to belong to |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʷəj | kjw+j | guī | return (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 41.8228% of movies
1068th most common character in movies
933rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 18 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6B78 |
Shuowen | “歸，女嫁也。从止，从婦省，聲。，籀文，省。” |
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