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归正

guī zhèng

2-character word Traditional 歸正

What 归正 means

1. to return to the right path
2. to mend one's ways
3. to reform
4. Reformed (church etc)

The characters in 归正

• 归guīto return; to go back to; to give back to
• 正zhèngstraight; upright; proper

Example sentences

• 改邪归正。
  Gǎixiéguīzhèng.
  Straighten up.
• 言归正传，事情进展得怎么样了？
  Yánguīzhèngzhuàn, shìqing jìnzhǎn de zěnmeyàng le?
  Joking aside, how are things going?

Words containing 归正

• 言归正传yán guī zhèng zhuànto return to the topic (idiom); to get back to the main point
• 改邪归正gǎi xié guī zhèngto mend one's ways (idiom); to turn over a new leaf
• 弃邪归正qì xié guī zhèngto give up evil and return to virtue

Sounds the same

Read guī zhèng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 规正to admonish