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籍贯

jí guàndictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
one's ancestral home (registered place of family origin, typically inherited patrilineally and recorded in official documents)
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Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-310266c9617d3b7d. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

籍貫 籍贯 [ji2 guan4] /one's ancestral home (registered place of family origin, typically inherited patrilineally and recorded in official documents)/

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Other forms in these source records: 籍貫

  • 籍
    jí

    (bound form) book / record / register / (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral records / (bound form) membership

    Jí

    surname Ji

  • 贯
    guàn

    to pierce through / to pass through / to be stringed together / string of 1000 cash

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.