| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 返還 | へんかん | return, restoration |
| 返済 | へんさい | repayment, reimbursement, refund, redemption |
| 繰り返し | くりかえし | repetition, reiteration, iteration, cycle; repeatedly |
| 見返り | みかえり | collateral |
| 返事 | へんじ | reply, answer, response |
| 繰り返す | くりかえす | to repeat, to do something over again |
| 巻き返し | まきかえし | rally, recovery, rollback |
| お返し | おかえし | return gift, return favour (favor); revenge; change (in a cash transaction) |
| 振り返る | ふりかえる | to turn head, to look over one's shoulder, to turn around, to look back |
| 返す | かえす | to return (something), to restore, to put back; to turn over, to turn upside down, to overturn; to pay back, to retaliate, to reciprocate; (after the -masu stem of a verb) to repeat ..., to do ... back |