返金

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 返金 is read へんきん and means returning money received.
• Basic usage: It is used for admission refunds after a cancellation or procedures for returning a payment.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Money and goods
  • 返金 concerns returning money; 返品 concerns returning goods. The two are distinct actions.
• Active and passive
  • 入場料を返金する describes refunding the admission fee.
  • 入場料が返金された is passive: the admission fee was refunded.