Results for “归”

nine divide by nine is one (abacus rule) / when all is said and done

abacus division rules (using a single-digit divisor)

the joy of matrimony (polite phrase referring to a young woman)

to incorporate / to put under (external administration)

same road out, different ones back

lit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黃泉|黄泉[Huáng quán] (idiom) / fig. to die / to meet one's end

the solar year / the year defined as the period between successive equinoxes

recurring fever

tropic / one of the two latitude lines, Tropic of Capricorn or Tropic of Cancer

to stay out all night (idiom)

inference by complete induction

to return / to come back

to leave early and return late (idiom)

to return late / to come home late

lit. to return east / fig. to return to one's homeland

to give up evil and return to virtue

to return home with honor

Gloria (section of Catholic mass)

to return home with honor

see 樹高千丈，葉落歸根|树高千丈，叶落归根[shù gāo qiān zhàng , yè luò guī gēn]

fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home

different routes to the same destination (idiom) / fig. different means of achieve the same end

spilt water returns to the trough (idiom) / fig. people remember where they belong

sb who has come back to China after gaining overseas experience (a pun on 海龜|海龟[hǎi guī]) / to return to China after a period of study or work overseas

every drop returns to the public good (idiom) / not one penny is misused

(idiom) to return from a rewarding journey

Angelica sinensis

all things tend in one direction (idiom)

to return empty-handed / to fail to win anything

linear regression (statistics)

lit. to let the tiger return to the mountain / fig. to store up future calamities

lit. a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / fig. all things go back to their source eventually / in old age, an expatriate returns home

a falling leaf returns to the roots (idiom) / everything has its ancestral home / In old age, an expatriate longs to return home.

(idiom) to lose everything one invested / to lose one's shirt

to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom) / to return in glory

to view death as a return home / to not be afraid of dying / to face death with equanimity (idiom)

to remove armor and return to the farm / to return to civilian life

to become reconciled / to bury the hatchet

responsibility must lie where it belongs (idiom)

(of ownership, custody etc) to be transferred to / to revert to / (medicine) clinical outcome / to reclassify (e.g. from asymptomatic carrier to confirmed case)