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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 归根

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
归根 guī gēn - to return home (after a lifetime's absence)
- to go back to one's roots

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 74,332 47,127

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
guī- surname Gui
guī- to return
- to go back to
- to give back to
- (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by
- to belong to
- to gather together
- (used between two identical verbs) despite
- to marry (of a woman) (old)
- division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
gēn- root
- basis
- classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
- CL:條|条[tiao2]
- radical (chemistry)

Other Words Containing 归根

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
归根结底 - - 23,178 23,911 19,831
归根到底 6 9 25,676 25,014 27,553
叶落归根 - - 75,891 84,748 73,274