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皈

guī

Character

What 皈 means

1. to comply with
2. to follow

Example sentences

• 他新近皈依的天主教徒。
  Tā xīnjìn guīyī de Tiānzhǔjiàotú.
  He is a recent convert to Catholicism.
• 萨米皈依伊斯兰教对他的人生产生了深远的影响。
  Sami's conversion to Islam was a life-changing thing.

Words starting with 皈

• 皈依guī yīto convert to (a religion)
• 皈依者guī yī zhěa convert

Characters that look like 皈

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 板bǎnboard; plank; plate
• 贩fànto deal in; to buy and sell; to trade in
• 映yìng(bound form) to become visible (esp. on a surface or in perception)
• 彼bǐthat; those; (one) another
• 坡pōslope; sloping; slanted
• 拔báto pull up; to pull out; to draw out by suction

Sounds the same

Read guī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 规compass; a rule; regulation
• 归to return; to go back to; to give back to
• 龟tortoise; turtle; (colloquial) cuckold
• 瑰(semiprecious stone); extraordinary
• 圭jade tablet, square at the base and rounded or pointed at the top, held by the nobility…
• 硅silicon (chemistry)
• 闺small arched door; boudoir; lady's chamber; (fig.) women
• 沩name of a river in Shanxi
• 鲑trout; salmon
• 傀grand; strange; exotic
• 槻zelkova tree
• 巂cuckoo; revolution of a wheel