漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
戻: re-, return
Also: revert, resume, restore, go backwards
JLPT N37 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
戸 carries the meaning · 大 is drawn in
7 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
レイrei · on'yomi · in compounds
- 返戻するへんれいするreturn [v.t.]
もどすmodosu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 戻すもどすrestore, put back [v.t.]
- 取り戻すとりもどすregain
- 買い戻すかいもどすbuy back
- 払い戻しはらいもどしrefund, rebate [n.]
もどるmodoru · kun'yomi
- 戻るもどるreturn [v.i.]
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)
A dog 犬 bending to enter through a door 戶 – to bend over. Extended to mean crooked, deviant, contrary.
Source: Wiktionary, 戾 (rev. 93467028), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Door (戸) + large/person. Originally suggested a "person" coming back through the "door" after a long journey—the act of returning.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 戾 · lì
戻 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 戾 in both simplified and traditional script.
- Simplified
- 戾 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 戾 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin lì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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