還

Meaning

還 centers on the idea of something going back to its origin: sending an item back, returning to a place, or a process that comes full circle.

• 帰還きかん

  return (home); repatriation

• 還元かんげん
  N1

  restoration; return

• 返還へんかん
  N1

  return; restoration

• 奪還だっかん

  recapture; retaking; recovery; taking back

• 生還せいかん

  returning alive; surviving

• 送還そうかん

  sending home; repatriation; deportation

• 還暦かんれき
  N1

  kanreki; one's 60th birthday (or 61st in the traditional age reckoning system) when one has lived through a full sexagenary cycle

• 還付かんぷ

  return; restoration; refund; (duty) drawback

• 償還しょうかん

  repayment; redemption; amortization; amortisation

• 召還しょうかん

  recall (esp. of an envoy or an ambassador); calling someone back; summons (home)

• 還流かんりゅう

  return current; reflux; back flow

• 大政奉還たいせいほうかん

  restoration of imperial rule

• 往還おうかん

  traffic; coming and going; highway

• 還俗げんぞく

  return to secular life (of a monk); secularization; secularisation

• アラ還アラかん

  person around sixty years old

• 債務償還さいむしょうかん

  debt redemption

• 償還期間しょうかんきかん

  redemption period; repayment term

• 償還義務者しょうかんぎむしゃ

  guarantor (of a payment)

• 利益還元りえきかんげん

  returning profits to customers; lowering prices to make up for profits (e.g. from exchange rate changes); distribution of profits (to staff, shareholders)

• 大還暦だいかんれき

  120th birthday

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