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

place to return to / home / final destination / ending
to file away / to place on file
to die (euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise)
to die / euphemism, lit. to return West or to the Western Paradise
guests feel at home (in a hotel, guest house etc) / a home away from home
to view death as a return home / to not be afraid of dying / to face death with equanimity (idiom)
different routes to the same destination (idiom); fig. different means of achieve the same end
to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions (idiom)
the way back / one's journey home
to return from a rewarding journey
to return to one's true self / to regain the natural state
tropic / one of the two latitude lines, Tropic of Capricorn or Tropic of Cancer
converted to (religion)
avoid the enemy when he is fresh and strike him when he is tired and withdraws (idiom)
recursion / recursive (calculation) / recurrence
(of ownership, custody etc) to be transferred to / to revert to / (medicine) clinical outcome / to reclassify (e.g. from asymptomatic carrier to confirmed case)
see 駕鶴西去|驾鹤西去[jia4 he4 xi1 qu4]

Sentences with 归

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