归 guī
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 彐 — snout
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
归还
guīhuán
to return
Characters in this word
还 hái
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 不 no, not, un-
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 借来的设备必须按时归还，否则会影响后续实验的安排。 Jiè lái de shèbèi bìxū ànshí guīhuán, fǒuzé huì yǐngxiǎng hòuxù shíyàn de ānpái. Borrowed equipment must be returned on time, otherwise it will affect the arrangement of later experiments.
- 这本书我明天就去图书馆归还。 Zhè běn shū wǒ míngtiān jiù qù túshūguǎn guīhuán. I'll go and return this book to the library tomorrow.
- 他捡到钱包后，马上归还给了失主。 Tā jiǎn dào qiánbāo hòu, mǎshàng guīhuán gěi le shīzhǔ. After finding the wallet, he returned it to its owner right away.
Related words
- 归 guī to return; to belong to
- 改邪归正 gǎixiéguīzhèng to abandon evil and return to the right path
- 归根到底 guīgēndàodǐ in the final analysis; ultimately
- 归结 guījié to attribute to; to sum up as
- 归来 guīlái to return; to come back
- 归纳 guīnà to summarise; to induce
- 归属 guīshǔ to belong to; affiliation
- 归宿 guīsù final destination; home; settlement
- 归于 guīyú to attribute to; to return to
- 回归 huíguī to return; to regress
- 无家可归 wújiākěguī homeless; with no home to return to
- 还 hái still, yet; also