归化

歸化
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. 归服、归顺。
  2. 一国国民，依法定程序移居他国，住满一定期间后，经申请获准而入籍该国。

重編國語辭典

Homographs

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

Entry Composition

1 归 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 化学 huàxué

Containing this entry

归化族 guīhuàzú

Related entries

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