Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 7
帰 return home
- Meaning
- return home
- On reading
- キ
- Kun reading
- かえ(る)
Memory hook
A broom next to a cloth: sweeping up and heading home. キ in compounds, かえ(る) on its own.
Words that use 帰
帰る
かえる
to go home
帰国
きこく
returning home
How to write 帰
Stroke order · 10 strokes
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
- 1 to 2. Vertical.
- 3. Horizontal, then turn down.
- 4 to 5. Horizontal.
- 6. A short dot.
- 7. Horizontal.
- 8. Vertical.
- 9. Horizontal, then turn down, ending in a hook.
- 10. Vertical.
Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
- Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
- A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
- Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).
帰 is taught on day 27 of the kanji course, alongside 入 出 立, with two writing passes and a short quiz.