Keyword
return home
Info
FrequencyTop 100-200
Type
Kyōiku (2nd grade) 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 9
Heisig1316
Old form
Readings
かえ
(86%)
(12%)
Composed of
katakana 'ri'
broom
Mnemonic

When you return home after a long vacation you'll have to grab a broom and clean up the whole place. And since you're returning from a vacation in Japan you'd use the katakana to spell "return" as リターン with an .

Used in vocabulary (249 in total)
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
to return; to come back
return; coming back
Examples (200 in total)
By the time you came back, I'd already left.
What do you want to do? Go home?
I thought you'd probably already gone home.