Kanji Study

Bushu (Radical) Info:
刀 (かたな) – sword
刈 (ガイ, カイ, か.る, かっ かり) – reap; cut; clip; trim; prune
彑 (ケイ, けいがしら) – pig's head
ヨ (けいがしら) – pig head
彖 (タン, シ, とく) – divination; a hog; a hedgehog; a porcupine

Henshall Mnemonic: return with wife carrying broom and sword

Levels: JLPT N4 | JLPT 3 (old) | Grade 2
Frequency: #504 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:

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JLPT N5 Words

• 帰る   [かえる]
  (v5r) to go back; to go home; to come home; to return   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N4 Words

• 帰り   [かえり]
  (n) return; coming back   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N3 Words

• 帰国   [きこく]
  (n,vs) return to country   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 帰宅   [きたく]
  (n,vs) returning home   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N2 Words

• 帰す   [かえす]
  (v5s) to send back   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• お帰り   [おかえり]
  return; welcome   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 日帰り   [ひがえり]
  (n) day trip   [K] [D] [Jisho]

JLPT N1 Words

• 帰京   [ききょう]
  (n) returning to Tokyo   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT

• 持ち帰り   [もちかえり]
  (n) takeout (i.e. food)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 持ち帰る   [もちかえる]
  (v5r) to carry back or home; to take out (e.g. food)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• お帰りなさい   [おかえりなさい]
  (exp,int) welcome home   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 帰依   [きえ]
  (n,vs) devotion; (religious) conversion   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 帰化   [きか]
  (n) naturalization   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 回帰   [かいき]
  (n) revolution; recurrence; recursion   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 帰還   [きかん]
  (n,vs) repatriation; return; feedback   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 帰休   [ききゅう]
  (n) (military) leave; furlough   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 帰省   [きせい]
  (n,vs) homecoming; returning home   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 帰属   [きぞく]
  (n) belonging to   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 帰途   [きと]
  (n) on the way back; returning   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 帰路   [きろ]
  (n-adv,n-t) one's way back   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 社会復帰   [しゃかいふっき]
  rehabilitation (in society)   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 里帰り   [さとがえり]
  (n) visiting one's parents; new bride's first visit to parents   [K] [D] [Jisho]
• 復帰   [ふっき]
  (n) return; comeback; reinstatement; carriage return (CR)   [K] [D] [Jisho]

Find more details for 帰 at jisho.org, Yookoso! or WWWJDIC

Acknowledgments

The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.

NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.

The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.

Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.

The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.

If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.