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回归

huí guī

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 回歸

回归 (huí guī) means "to return to; to retreat; regression (statistics)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 回归 means

1. to return to
2. to retreat
3. regression (statistics)

The characters in 回归

• 回huíto go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around; to reply; to answer…
• 归guīto return; to go back to; to give back to

Example sentences

• 香港是一九九七年回归中国的。
  Xiānggǎng shì yī jiǔ jiǔ qī nián huí guī Zhōngguó de.
  Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997.
• 有一首关于澳门回归的歌很好听。
  Yǒu yī shǒu guānyú àomén huíguī de gē hěn hǎotīng.
  There's a really good song about Macau's return to Chinese rule.

Words starting with 回归

• 回归年huí guī niánthe solar year; the year defined as the period between successive equinoxes
• 回归热huí guī rèrecurring fever
• 回归线huí guī xiàntropic; one of the two latitude lines, Tropic of Capricorn or Tropic of Cancer

Words containing 回归

• 北回归线Běi huí guī xiànTropic of Cancer
• 南回归线Nán huí guī xiànTropic of Capricorn
• 线性回归xiàn xìng huí guīlinear regression (statistics)

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