帰き省せい

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帰省する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	帰き省せいする	帰き省せいしない
Polite	帰き省せいします	帰き省せいしません
Past polite	帰き省せいしました	帰き省せいしませんでした
Past	帰き省せいした	帰き省せいしなかった
Te-form	帰き省せいして	帰き省せいしないで
Desire	帰き省せいしたい	帰き省せいしたくない
Potential	帰き省せいできる	帰き省せいできない
Passive	帰き省せいされる	帰き省せいされない
Causative	帰き省せいさせる	帰き省せいさせない
Causative passive	帰き省せいさせられる	帰き省せいさせられない
Volitional	帰き省せいしよう
Polite volitional	帰き省せいしましょう
Imperative	帰き省せいしろ	帰き省せいするな
Conditional	帰き省せいすれば	帰き省せいしなければ
Tara conditional	帰き省せいしたら	帰き省せいしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

homecoming; returning home

Typically used for returning to one's hometown or family home, often during holidays like New Year's or Obon. Can be used as a noun or with する as an intransitive verb.

お盆ぼんに帰き省せいする予よ定ていです。
I plan to go back to my hometown for Obon.
年ねん末まつ年ねん始しの帰き省せいラッシュは大たい変へんだ。
The homecoming rush at the year-end and New Year holidays is tough.

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Usage patterns

〈時とき〉に帰き省せいするto go home (to one's hometown) for a particular occasion
毎まい年としお盆ぼんに実じっ家かへ帰き省せいする。
Every year I go back to my hometown for Obon.
〈場ば所しょ〉に帰き省せいするto return to (a hometown/family home)
新しん幹かん線せんで田舎いなかに帰き省せいする予よ定ていです。
I'm planning to go back to my hometown by bullet train.

Kanji

帰homecoming, arrive at, lead to
省government ministry, conserve, omit

Related words

帰き郷きょう
帰郷 is a more literary or formal word for returning to one's hometown, while 帰省 is the everyday term used for holiday homecomings.
帰き宅たくN3
帰宅 means going back to the home where one currently lives (e.g. after work), while 帰省 means going back to one's family hometown, often for a holiday visit.
帰き国こくN4
帰国 means returning to one's home country (used especially by people living abroad), while 帰省 is specifically about visiting one's hometown or family home.
ＵターンN2
帰省 specifically means going back to one's hometown to visit family, while Ｕターン more broadly covers the return trip after any vacation or holiday.
里さと帰がえり
帰省 is a more formal, neutral word for going back to one's hometown (e.g. for New Year's or Obon), while 里帰り carries a warmer, personal nuance and is especially associated with a married woman visiting her parents.

Opposites

上じょう京きょうN3
上京 means leaving one's hometown to go to Tokyo, while 帰省 means returning from Tokyo (or elsewhere) back to one's hometown.

Don't confuse with

気き勢せい
帰省 (returning to one's hometown) shares the same pronunciation as 気勢 (fighting spirit) but has a completely unrelated meaning.
帰き化かN1
帰省 means going home to visit family, quite different from 帰化's meaning of legally becoming a citizen of another country, though both start with 帰.

Word family

帰き省せいラッシュ
holiday travel rush; homecoming traffic congestion

Etymology

Compound of 帰 (return) and 省 (visit, examine). The kanji 省 here carries the sense of visiting one's parents or hometown, as in 省親 (visiting one's parents).