帰す

かえす · kaesu · JLPT N3 · verb-godan

to send back

🏠 帰 = return home, so 帰す = make someone return home: send them back

帰 is the kanji in 帰る (kaeru, to go home). The transitive 帰す sends a person home, e.g. dismissing students early. Its homophone 返す (also kaesu) is for returning objects, like a borrowed book.

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