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還

send back
Stroke count: 16

Readings

On readingカン
Kun readingかえ.る
JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 8

Meanings

  1. send backRtK
  2. return
  1. restoration
  2. reduction
  3. resolution
  4. deoxidization

Popular Usage

還元還暦

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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trampoline · eye (目) · cross-eyed · net (网) · one (一) · ceiling (冖) · mouth (口) · scarf (冂) · road (辶)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 900

Compound words

還元かんげん
restoration; return; reduction; resolution; deoxidization
還暦かんれき
kanreki; one's 60th birthday (or 61st in the traditional age reckoning system) when one has lived through a full sexagenary cycle
還流かんりゅう
return current; reflux; back flow
帰還きかん
return (home); repatriation; feedback (in an electronic circuit, biological system, etc.)
償還しょうかん
repayment; redemption; amortization; amortisation
送還そうかん
sending home; repatriation; deportation
奪還だっかん
recapture; retaking; recovery; taking back
返還へんかん
return; restoration
還付かんぷ
return; restoration; refund; (duty) drawback
生還せいかん
returning alive; surviving; reaching the home plate
往還おうかん
traffic
還すかえす
to send (someone) back
還りかえり
return
還るかえる
to return
還境かんきょう
environment
還向げこう
going from the capital to the provinces
還俗げんぞく
return to secular life (of a monk)
循還じゅんかん
circulation
饋還きかん
return (home)
還水槽かんすいそう
condensate receiver tank
大還暦だいかんれき
120th birthday
濃縮還元のうしゅくかんげん
(of juice, etc.) "from concentrate"
白紙還元はくしかんげん
returned to the drawing board
本卦還りほんけがえり
reaching age of 60

Additional Examples

彼が打ってランナーを３人生還させた。
He batted three runners home.tatoeba
大病からようやく生還した私の目には、森羅万象が美しく映った。
Since I recovered from my serious illness, all of creation is beautiful to me.tatoeba
大使はワルシャワから召還された。
The ambassador was recalled from Warsaw.tatoeba
国債の償還は、国民の平均所得の減少を意味することになるでしょう。
Paying the national debt could mean reducing the average income.tatoeba
だが虚構の物語を史実に還元するものであるとして強く批判されている。
It has been, however, severely criticized on the ground that it reduces the fictional narrative to a historical fact.wiki
還暦で壽童と改名。
He assumed the new name of Judo at the age of 60.wiki
例外的に還暦の場合のみ異なる。
However, an exception occurs when celebrating Kanreki (one's sixtieth birthday).wiki

Stroke Order

16 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 還

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