归 guī
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 彐 — snout
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
归根到底
guīgēndàodǐ
in the final analysis; ultimately
Characters in this word
根 gēn
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Made of
- 木 tree 艮 blunt
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
到 dào
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 至 reach, arrive 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
底 dǐ
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 广 — broad, vast, wide
- Made of
- 广 broad, vast, wide 氐 the name of an ancient tribe
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 归根到底，学好语言要靠每天坚持练习。 Guīgēn dàodǐ, xuéhǎo yǔyán yào kào měitiān jiānchí liànxí. In the end, learning a language well depends on practising every day.
- 你们吵来吵去，归根到底是为了同一件事。 Nǐmen chǎo lái chǎo qù, guīgēn dàodǐ shì wèile tóng yí jiàn shì. You two keep arguing, but ultimately it is about the same thing.
- 归根到底，这只是个误会，说开就好了。 Guīgēn dàodǐ, zhè zhǐshì ge wùhuì, shuō kāi jiù hǎo le. After all, this is just a misunderstanding; talking it out will fix it.
Related words
- 归 guī to return; to belong to
- 归还 guīhuán to return
- 改邪归正 gǎixiéguīzhèng to abandon evil and return to the right path
- 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
- 根本 gēnběn simply; basic