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See also: 帰 and 归

Traditional 歸
Shinjitai 帰
Simplified 归

歸 (Kangxi radical 77, 止+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹一尸一月 (HMSMB), four-corner 27127, composition ⿰⿱𠂤止帚)

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 578, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16349
  • Dae Jaweon: page 968, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1446, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+6B78
trad. 歸
simp. 归
alternative forms
Old Chinese
蘬 *kʰlul, *kʰrul, *kʰrulʔ
磓 *tuːl
塠 *tuːl
頧 *tuːl, *tuːlʔ
鴭 *tuːl
鎚 *tuːl, *dul, *duls
搥 *tuːl
縋 *dols
膇 *dols
槌 *dols, *dul
追 *tul
桘 *dul
巋 *kʰrul, *kʰrulʔ
歸 *klul

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 𠂤 (“ancient form of 師 (“troops”)”) + 帚 (“broom; sweep”) – to eradicate the enemy and return.

Some analyse the 帚 component in the oracle bone script as a ligature of 止 (“to stop, to cease”) and 方 (“peripheral tribes”), i.e. “(of tribes in the periphery) to cease enmity and submit”.

A 止 (“foot”) or 辵 (“walking”) component was further added in the bronze inscriptions.

Shuowen deems 𠂤 to be the phonetic component of this character.

Starostin and Schuessler (2007) consider this a possible derivative of 回 (OC *ɡuːl, “to revolve; to return”). Compared with Tibetan འཁོར ('khor, “circle; turn; to turn round; to return”) by Xue (2001) and Wang (2007).

Note:

  • 1jy - colloquial (歸去);
  • 1kue - literary.
  • Dialectal data
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 歸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		guī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kjwɨj ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[k]ʷəj/
English return (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 歸
Reading # 1/1
No. 17748
Phonetic
component 		追
Rime
group 		微
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		歸
Old
Chinese 		/*klul/

歸

  1. to return (to a place); to come back to
  2. to return to (a person, a status); to revert to
  3. to submit to; to seek patronage
  4. to tend towards; to converge
    三三歸九／三三归九 [Cantonese]  ―  saam1 saam1 gwai1 gau2 [Jyutping]  ―  three time three equals nine (rhyme)
  5. to belong to
  6. (between identical verbs) despite; notwithstanding
    吵架歸吵架／吵架归吵架  ―  chǎojià guī chǎojià  ―  despite the quarreling

Usually written as 皈 in Buddhist terms (皈依 (guīyī), 三皈 (sānguī), 皈正, etc.).

Dialectal synonyms of 回 (“to return; to come/go back”) [map]

For pronunciation and definitions of 歸 – see 饋 (“to present gift”).
(This character is an obsolete form of 饋).

歸

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 帰)

  1. to return; to come back to

歸 (eumhun 돌아갈 귀 (doragal gwi))

  1. hanja form? of 귀 (“to return, to go back”)

歸: Hán Nôm readings: qui, quy

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