surname Gui

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) was given the responsibility (归) to guard the Eiffel Tower. In front of it (ei1) she stands guard holding a tiny kitchen knife (刂) in her hand in case of attacks, and a pig's snout (彐) on her head as kind of a helmet.
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

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) was given the responsibility (归) to guard the Eiffel Tower. In front of it (ei1) she stands guard holding a tiny kitchen knife (刂) in her hand in case of attacks, and a pig's snout (彐) on her head as kind of a helmet.

归 character breakdown

Kangxi radical 18 (刀[dao1]) as a vertical side element / see also 立刀旁[li4 dao1 pang2] / see also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[ce4 dao1 pang2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a kitchen knife. Don Quixote (d) is showing off his special knifes in front of the aorta (ao1). One is made from a dinosaur bone (丨), and the other is made from a crowbar (亅).
pig snout (Kangxi radical 58)

Mnemonic symbol: the character 彐 looks a bit like a pig snout seen from the side. If you need to type it, remember its pronunciation ji4 by imagining Joan of Arc wearing a fake pig snout in the space station's bathroom and making grunting and squealing sounds.

Characters with 归 as component

high and mighty (of mountain) / hilly

Words with 归

to return sth / to revert
to return to one's unit / to go back to one's station in life
to belong to / affiliated to / to result in sth / to incline towards
to sum up; to conclude; to put in a nutshell / conclusion; end (of a story etc)
to bring to justice / to file away (a document)
in the final analysis / ultimately
to classify / to categorize
after all / in the final analysis / ultimately
to sum up / to summarize / to conclude from facts / induction (method of deduction in logic)
to surrender and pay allegiance to
to go back to one's native place and live in seclusion
return trip / homeward journey
to gather / to rake together / to pile up
every drop returns to the public good (idiom); not one penny is misused
long division / calculation on the abacus
to reset to zero / (fig.) to start again from scratch; to go back to square one
spilt water returns to the trough (idiom); fig. people remember where they belong
sb who has come back to China after gaining overseas experience (a pun on 海龜|海龟[hai3 gui1]) / to return to China after a period of study or work overseas

Sentences with 归

zhè
yù
mǎ
jia̅n
yǒu
jùn
mǎ
qia̅n
pǐ
 
 
do̅u
gui̅
nǐ
guǎn