歸化

归化
guīhuà
naturalization

CEDICT

  1. (of a foreigner) to naturalize; to be admitted to the citizenship of another country
  2. (translation studies) to domesticate
  3. (～城) Guihua (one of the two towns that merged to form Guisui, or modern Hohhot in Inner Mongolia autonomous region)
  4. (～縣) Old name for 明溪 (Míngxī, “Mingxi County, Fujian”).
  5. Guihua (one of the two towns that merged to form Guisui, or modern Hohhot in Inner Mongolia autonomous region)
  6. Old name for 明溪 (Míngxī, “Mingxi County, Fujian”).
  7. to assimilate
  8. to domesticate
  9. to naturalize; to be admitted to the citizenship of another country
  10. to surrender and pay allegiance to

Wiktionary

  1. 歸服、歸順。
  2. 一國國民，依法定程序移居他國，住滿一定期間後，經申請獲准而入籍該國。

重編國語辭典

Homographs

歸化 Guīhuà old name for district of Hohhot city 呼和浩特 Hūhéhàotè, Inner Mongolia

Entry Composition

1 歸 guī
  1. to return
  2. to go back to
  3. to give back to
  4. (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by
  5. to belong to
  6. to gather together
  7. (used between two identical verbs) despite
  8. to marry (of a woman) (old)
  9. division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
2 化 huà
  1. to make into
  2. to change into
  3. -ization
  4. to ... -ize
  5. to transform
  6. abbr. for 化學 huàxué

Containing this entry

歸化族 guīhuàzú

Related entries

寄籍 jìjí
  1. to register as domiciled in another land
  2. naturalization