漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
還: send back, return
JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 睘(sound)
- ⻌road(meaning)
⻌ carries the meaning · 睘 gives the sound
16 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 返還へんかんreturn; restoration
- 帰還きかんreturn (home); repatriation
- 還元かんげんrestoration; return
- 償還しょうかんrepayment; redemption; amortization
- 還付かんぷreturn; restoration; refund
- 送還そうかんsending home; repatriation; deportation
- 奪還だっかんrecapture; retaking; recovery
- 還暦かんれきkanreki
Also read かえる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side還 send back · ⻌
vs環 ring · 王In ChineseSimplified 还 · traditional, as in Japanese · hái
Japan keeps the traditional form 還; mainland China simplifies it to 还.
- Simplified
- 还 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 還 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin hái 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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