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歸天

归天

guītiān

to die

to return to Heaven; (euphemistic) to pass away; to die

人死。因不忍直言死亡而改以委婉之辭替代。《官場現形記．第四九回》：「裡面已經是嚎啕痛苦，一片舉哀的聲音，就有人趕出來報信，說是軍門歸天了！」。《文明小史．第四一回》:「等到少爺歸天，康太尊恨極，直要抓他來跪在靈前。」

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Entry Composition

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

day
sky
heaven

Containing this entry

yīmìngguītiān

see 一命嗚呼 yīmìngwūhū

Related entries

to die (idiom)
to breathe one's last
to give up the ghost

to die
future incarnation
next life
to be born
to come into the world
future generation

to die
to lose
to be gone
to flee
deceased

从古到今，没有过不灭亡的国家。

There has never been a nation that was not eventually destroyed.

Source: Tatoeba

to die
to pass away

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