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Kanji Detail for 歸 - "return, marry, settle, die, give"
歸
- Meaning
歸 means "return, marry, settle, die, give."
Return - To go back; to restore.
Marry - For a woman to wed.
Settle - To calm down; to subside.
Die - To pass away.
Give - To bestow; to present.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
homecoming; arrive at; lead to; result in
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
return; return to, revert to
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Gui
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to return, to go back; to return to, to revert
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To return. As in 歸途 (return journey), 歸國 (return to one's country). Returning something taken is also called 歸, as in "borrowing for a long time without returning" (久假不歸). See Mencius. | Sending something to others is also called 歸. As in 歸罪 (to blame), 歸咎 (to attribute fault). Surrendering oneself when guilty is called 自歸 (self-surrender). | To submit. The Analects: "The whole world will submit to benevolence" (天下歸仁焉). | For women, marriage is called 于歸 (to marry). See Book of Odes. Hence, women refer to their husband's family as 歸某氏. | Name in arithmetic. The nine-return method (九歸法) is division. Today in abacus calculation, the first step of division is also called 歸.
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