帰宅

きたく · kitaku · JLPT N3 · noun

home

帰宅 — home

🏠 帰 return + 宅 residence = going back to your own house

帰 (ki) means return, as in 帰る kaeru, to go home. 宅 (taku) means residence, as in 自宅 jitaku, one's own home. Together: returning to the residence. Verbal hook: ki-TAKU, back to the house I took.

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