| 归根结蒂 |
guī gēn jié dì |
ultimately / in the final analysis / after all / when all is said and done |
| 归 |
Guī |
surname Gui |
| 归 |
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 |
| 归根 |
guī gēn |
to return home (after a lifetime's absence) / to go back to one's roots |
| 根 |
gēn |
root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL:条 / radical (chemistry) |
| 结 |
jiē |
(of a plant) to produce (fruit or seeds) / Taiwan pr. [jie2] |
| 结 |
jié |
knot / sturdy / bond / to tie / to bind / to check out (of a hotel) |
| 蒂 |
dì |
stem (of fruit) |
| 蒂 |
dì |
variant of 蒂 |