呼び戻す

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 呼び戻す is read as よびもどす and is a transitive verb meaning to call back someone who has left or stepped away.
• Basic usage: Calling back a child appears in 子どもを呼び戻す, while summoning an employee to the sales floor appears in 店員を売り場へ呼び戻す.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Person and return destination
  • The person called back takes を, and the destination to which that person returns can take へ.
• Difference from 呼ぶ
  • 呼ぶ broadly means calling or inviting someone, while 呼び戻す includes the idea of making someone who has left return.