おかえりなさい

Japanese edit

For pronunciation and definitions of おかえりなさい – see the following entry.
お帰りなさい
[interjection] welcome home (said by a person greeting another coming back home, a stock phrase required by the Japanese etiquette)
Alternative spelling
御帰りなさい
(This term, おかえりなさい, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)