歸

See also 帰, and 归

Translingual

shinjitai	帰
simplified	归
traditional	歸

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 追 + semantic 帚 ?

Phonetic was originally just the component (追 minus ⻌ (also phonetic), or 官 minus 宀 (as semantic: rooms) – roughly 呂), in oracle and bronze characters – 止 was added in seal script.

Han character

歸 (radical 77 止+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹一尸一月 (HMSMB), four-corner 2712₇)

1. return
2. return to, revert to

Descendants

• Simplifications: 帰 归

References

• KangXi: page 578, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16349
• Dae Jaweon: page 968, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1446, character 15
• Unihan data for U+6B78

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Cantonese

Hanzi

歸 (simplified 归, Yale gwai1)

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Japanese

Kanji

歸

Readings

• On: き (ki), ぎ (gi)
• Kun: とつぐ (totsugu), ゆく (yuku), かえる (kaeru)

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Korean

Hanja

歸 (hangeul 귀, 궤, revised gwi, gwe, McCune-Reischauer kwi, kwe, Yale kwi, kwey)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

歸 (simplified 归, pinyin guī (gui1), Wade-Giles kuei¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

歸 (quy, qui)