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還 kanji
send back, return
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Secondary school
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カン
Kun readings
かえる
Words with 還
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1還元Popularrestoration; return; reduction; resolution; deoxidization; deoxidation
- N1還暦Popularkanreki; one's 60th birthday (or 61st in the traditional age reckoning system) when one has lived through a full sexagenary cycle
- N1返還Popularreturn; restoration
- —還流Popularreturn current; reflux; back flow
- —帰還Popularreturn (home); repatriation; feedback (in an electronic circuit, biological system, etc.)
- —償還Popularrepayment; redemption; amortization; amortisation
- —送還Popularsending home; repatriation; deportation
- —奪還Popularrecapture; retaking; recovery; taking back
- —還付Popularreturn; restoration; refund; (duty) drawback
- —生還Popularreturning alive; surviving; reaching the home plate
- —往還traffic; coming and going; highway
- —召還recall (esp. of an envoy or an ambassador); calling someone back; summons (home)
- —奉還restoring (power, etc.) to the emperor
- —還水condensate return
- —還啓return to the palace (usu. of the empress, crown prince, etc.)
- —還都return of government (to Kyoto); making former capital (esp. Kyoto) the capital again
- —還幸return of the Emperor (from a visit); return of a shintai to its shrine
- —還御return (of the emperor, empress, shogun, etc.)
- —還送returning (e.g. to the country of origin); sending back; repatriation
- —還付金refund