Chinese symbol for “anyhow”
总归
zǒng guī
Traditional: 總歸
in any case; anyhow; after all
The closest CC-CEDICT match for anyhow is 总归 (zǒng guī), defined as: in any case; anyhow; after all.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “anyhow”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 总归.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 总统 (總統) | zǒng tǒng | president (of a country) |
| 总是 (總是) | zǒng shì | always |
| 总理 (總理) | zǒng lǐ | premier; prime minister |
| 总结 (總結) | zǒng jié | to sum up; to conclude |
| 总部 (總部) | zǒng bù | headquarters |
| 总之 (總之) | zǒng zhī | in a word; in short |
| 回归 (回歸) | huí guī | to return to; to retreat |
| 归属 (歸屬) | guī shǔ | to belong to; to be affiliated to |
See also: Japanese symbol for “anyhow”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.