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归结

guījié

to attribute to; to sum up as

A person gathers scattered papers into one neat stack
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Characters in this word

归 guī

Strokes
5
Radical
彐 — snout
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

结 jié

Strokes
9
Radical
纟 — silk
Made of
纟 silk 吉 lucky, propitious, good
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 他把项目失败归结为沟通不畅,却忽视了决策机制本身的缺陷。 Tā bǎ xiàngmù shībài guījié wéi gōutōng bú chàng, què hūshì le juécè jīzhì běnshēn de quēxiàn. He attributed the project's failure to poor communication, but overlooked flaws in the decision-making mechanism itself.
  • 老师把大家的意见归结为三点。 Lǎoshī bǎ dàjiā de yìjiàn guījié wéi sān diǎn. The teacher summed up everyone's opinions in three points.
  • 他把自己的成功归结为运气好。 Tā bǎ zìjǐ de chénggōng guījié wéi yùnqi hǎo. He put his success down to good luck.

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