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歸田
guī​tián

to retire from public life

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
归田 歸田 guī//tián
to retire from public life
To resign from office and return to one's home village to live in seclusion.
to return land
(literary) To return land to the government or owner, particularly at the age of sixty in ancient systems.

Frequency

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0.152 per million

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Frequency data
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