归 guī
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 彐 — snout
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
归于
guīyú
to attribute to; to return to
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Example phrases
- 调查组把事故归于管理失误，而非单个员工的偶然疏忽。 Diàochá zǔ bǎ shìgù guīyú guǎnlǐ shīwù, ér fēi dān gè yuángōng de ǒurán shūhu. The investigation team attributed the accident to management failures rather than an individual employee's accidental negligence.
- 他把比赛的失败归于自己的准备不足。 Tā bǎ bǐsài de shībài guīyú zìjǐ de zhǔnbèi bùzú. He put the loss in the match down to his own lack of preparation.
- 暴风雨过后，海面又归于平静。 Bàofēngyǔ guòhòu, hǎimiàn yòu guīyú píngjìng. After the storm, the sea returned to calm.
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
- 回归 huíguī to return; to regress
- 无家可归 wújiākěguī homeless; with no home to return to
- 等于 děngyú to equal