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Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N3

890 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: re-, return, revert, resume, restore, go backwards

Kunyomi: もど.す, もど.る

Onyomi: レイ

Composition: 戸 大

戻

Radical

Radical: 戶

Reading: とだれ

Meaning: door, house

Strokes: 4

Reading: とだれ

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Examples

Examples with audio

返戻する(へんれいする)   return [v.t.]

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.]

戻る(もどる)   return [v.i.]

Onyomi Examples

戻入 (レイニュウ) reversal of monies, funds, commissions

背戻 (ハイレイ) disobeying, infringing, running counter to

暴戻 (ボウレイ) tyranny, atrocity, brutality

Kunyomi Examples

戻す (もどす) to put back, to return, to give back, to restore (to a previous state, e.g. defrosting, reconstituting, reconciling), to turn back (e.g. clock hand), to vomit, to throw up, to recover (of a market price)

戻る (もどる) to turn back (e.g. half-way), to return, to go back, to recover (e.g. something lost), to be returned, to rebound, to spring back

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