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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 归西

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
归西 guī xī - to die (euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise)

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
- - 24,814 - 85,875

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
西 - the West
- abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]
- Spanish
西 - west

Other Words Containing 归西

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
归西 - - 24,814 - 85,875