ChiramiN4 kanji · 10 strokes
帰 means return home
帰
帰Memory trick
Sweeping up with a broom before heading home: to return.
Memory trick: a picture to help you remember the kanji, not its history.
Meaning and readings
- Meanings
- homecoming, arrive at, lead to, result in
- JLPT level
- N4
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 2 in Japan
Japanese (kunyomi) かえる kaeru
かえる (kaeru) is the Japanese word for this kanji. You use it when the kanji stands alone or has kana after it. Dictionaries call this the kun reading.
Other Japanese readings: かえす kaesu, おくる okuru, とつぐ totsugu
From Chinese (onyomi) キ ki
キ (ki) came from Chinese with the character. You mostly hear it in words made of several kanji. Dictionaries call this the on reading.
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Common word
帰る かえる · kaeru
to return, to come home
Built from
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What does 帰 mean?
Right: 帰 means return home.Not quite: 帰 means return home.In 帰る, which reading does 帰 use?
Right. 帰る is read かえる (kaeru): 帰 takes かえ, its Japanese reading, with る after it.Not quite. 帰る is read かえる (kaeru): 帰 takes かえ, its Japanese reading, with る after it.