歸來

See also: 归来

Chinese

		to go back; to return	to come
trad. (歸來)		歸	來
simp. (归来)		归	来
anagram		來歸／来归

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guīlái

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄟ ㄌㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwai¹ loi⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kûi-lòi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guīlái
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄟ ㄌㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gueilái
    • Wade–Giles: kuei¹-lai²
    • Yale: gwēi-lái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gueilai
    • Palladius: гуйлай (gujlaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ laɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwai¹ loi⁴
    • Yale: gwāi lòih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwai¹ loi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: guei¹ loi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐi̯⁵⁵ lɔːi̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kûi-lòi
    • Hakka Romanization System: gui´ loiˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gui¹ loi²
    • Sinological IPA: /ku̯i²⁴ loi̯¹¹/

Verb

歸來

1. to return; to come back

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 回來 (“to come back; to return”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		歸來
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		回來, 歸來
Mandarin	Beijing	回來
	Taiwan	回來
	Tianjin	回來
	Luoyang	回來
	Wanrong	回來
	Xi'an	回來
	Chengdu	轉來
	Guiyang	轉來
	Guilin	回來
	Xuzhou	回來
	Singapore	回來
Cantonese	Guangzhou	返嚟
	Hong Kong	返嚟
	Taishan	返來
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	返嚟
	Singapore (Guangfu)	返嚟
Hakka	Meixian	轉來
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	轉來
	Wuhua (Shuizhai)	轉來
	Wuhua (Huacheng)	轉來
	Wuhua (Changbu)	轉來
	Wuhua (Mianyang)	轉來
	Heyuan (Bendihua)	轉來
	Wengyuan	轉來
	Liannan	轉來
	Jiexi	轉來
	Zhao'an (Xiuzhuan)	轉來
	Changting	轉來
	Wuping (Yanqian)	歸來
	Ninghua	轉來
	Yudu	轉來
	Ningdu	歸來
	Tonggu (Sandu)	轉來
	Ganzhou (Panlong)	歸來
	Dayu	轉來
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	轉來
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	歸來
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	轉來
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	轉來
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	轉來, 轉
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	轉來
	Hong Kong	轉來
	Mengshan (Xihe)	轉
	Luchuan	轉來
	Senai (Huiyang)	轉來
Jin	Taiyuan	回來
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	轉來
Southern Min	Xiamen	轉來, 倒來
	Quanzhou	轉來, 倒來
	Dehua	倒來
	Zhangzhou	轉來
	Tainan	轉來
	Singapore (Hokkien)	轉來
	Manila (Hokkien)	斡來, 倒來, 翻來
	Chaozhou	轉來
	Shantou	轉來
	Jieyang	轉來
	Bangkok (Teochew)	轉來
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	轉來
	Singapore (Teochew)	轉來
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	轉來
Wu	Shanghai	回來, 轉來, 回轉來
	Shanghai (Chongming)	轉來
	Hangzhou	轉來
	Wenzhou	走來
Xiang	Changsha	轉來

Antonyms

• 出發／出发 (chūfā)