Meaning & readings
re-, return, revert, resume, restore, go backwards
Origin
This character combines "large" (大) with "door" (戸), which together suggest the idea of something going back through or reversing direction. The door radical (戸) functions here as a classifier indicating action or movement, while the "large" component adds the sense of a significant reversal or return. The combination captures the notion of going backward or restoring something to its former state—much like passing back through a doorway to where you started. Over time, this visual metaphor solidified into the meaning of return, revert, and restore.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 7
- Kangxi radical
- 63
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #890 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+0623B