First opened Wednesday, March 29, 2006

反る

かえる

Pitch accent: We don't have the data for this section. No accent list gives this spelling and reading, or the two we check against disagree.

to return, to come back; to turn over

JLPT N3CommonGodan verb with 'ru' endingintransitive verb和語 · Native Japanese

Kaeru, “to return”, is from Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *kapyaru.

Taken apart

No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.

Written with 反

In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

“From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *kapyaru.”

Source: Wiktionary: 反る (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

和語 Native Japanese: Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.

Related in the dictionary

The words JMdict points to from this word's sense. A word that has opened links to its day; the others are named as JMdict writes them.

See also: 裏返る

Also read かえる

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

反るThis word
to return, to come back; to turn over
No pitch accent shown
変える
to change, to alter, to vary
かえる flat (heiban)
代える
to exchange, to interchange, to substitute
かえる flat (heiban)
替える
to exchange, to interchange, to substitute
かえる flat (heiban)
帰る
to go back, to go home, to return
か↓える head-high (atamadaka)
換える
to exchange, to interchange, to substitute
かえる flat (heiban)

Also opened on March 29

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.