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

部首ぶしゅ: はば(巾)

Meaning

Return / Go back / Send back

  • Basic forms
  • 帰る — to return; to go back / base form
  • 帰ります — return / masu form
  • 帰った — returned / ta form
  • 帰って — return and… / te-form
  • 帰らない — do not return / negative
  • 帰れば — if (someone) returns / conditional
  • 帰れ・帰りなさい — return! / imperative
  • Other common forms
  • 帰りたい — want to return / 〜たい
  • 帰れる — can return / potential
  • 帰られた — was made to return / passive
  • 帰られない — cannot return / negative potential
  • More
  • 帰ろう — let’s return / 〜よう
  • 帰らなかった — did not return / past negative
  • 帰っている — has returned / state

帰る(かえる) is a godan verb. Commonly used for returning home or going back to a familiar place.

  • 帰国きこく — return to one’s country
  • 帰宅きたく — returning home
  • 帰省きせい — returning to hometown
  • かえみち — way back
  • 帰属きぞく — belonging

帰 originally referred to returning to one’s home or place of belonging. Today it broadly means “to return,” both physically and metaphorically.

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