Kanji 帰

音読おんよみ:

訓読くんよみ: かえる・かえす

画数かくすう: 10 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: 巾(はば)

Meaning

To return / to go back / to send back

  • 帰国きこく — return to one’s country
  • 帰宅きたく — returning home
  • 帰省きせい — returning to one’s hometown
  • かえみち — way back
  • 帰属きぞく — affiliation, belonging
  • 回帰かいき — return, regression
  • 復帰ふっき — reinstatement, comeback

The kanji 帰 includes components for “go” and “cloth,” with the older form including a woman radical. Originally, it suggested a woman returning to her family or home — and eventually broadened to mean simply “to return.”

何時なんじかえりますか。
What time will you return?

夏休なつやすみに実家じっかかえりました。
I went back to my parents’ house for summer break.

宅
Creates
帰宅きたく — returning home
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