| 改邪归正 |
gǎi xié guī zhèng |
to mend one's ways (idiom) / to turn over a new leaf |
| 改 |
gǎi |
to change / to alter / to transform / to correct |
| 邪 |
xié |
old variant of 邪 |
| 邪 |
xié |
demonic / iniquitous / nefarious / evil / unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine) / (coll.) strange / abnormal |
| 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 |
| 归正 |
guī zhèng |
to return to the right path / to mend one's ways / to reform / Reformed (church etc) |
| 正 |
zhēng |
first month of the lunar year |
| 正 |
zhèng |
straight / upright / proper / main / principal / to correct / to rectify / exactly / just (at that time) / right (in that place) / (math.) positive |