# 返 — Return

Frequency rank 231 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 白 (White), less common than 進 (Advance).

- On’yomi: へん
- Kun’yomi: かえ
- Radical: 辵 Walk (Kangxi 162)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

An anti-delivery sign swings shut at the gate, so the courier dumps the scooter, walks the entire route backwards along the bottom of the kanji, and Returns the parcel into the sender's chest hard enough to wind him.

In words:

- 返す かえす — to return something
- 返事 へんじ — reply
- 返る かえる — to return;to come back;to go back

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