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复

fù

HSK 3 Character Traditional 復

What 复 means

1. to go and return
2. to return
3. to resume
4. to return to a normal or original state
5. to repeat
6. again
7. to recover
8. to restore
9. to turn over
10. to reply
11. to answer
12. to reply to a letter
13. to retaliate
14. to carry out

Other readings

复 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• fùto repeat; to double; to overlap
• fùvariant of {复|fù}; to reply to a letter

Example sentences

• 重复！
  Repeat!
• 复水难收。
  What is done cannot be undone.
• 谨待复信。
  I am looking forward to hearing from you.
• 早日康复。
  I hope you'll recover quickly.
• 早日康复！
  Get well soon!
• 我没答复。
  I didn't reply.

Words starting with 复

• 复习fù xíto review; revision
• 复杂fù zácomplicated; complex
• 复印fù yìnto photocopy; to duplicate a document
• 复制fù zhìto duplicate; to make a copy of; to copy
• 复兴fù xīngto revive; to rejuvenate
• 复活fù huóto revive; (lit. and fig.) to come back to life; (religion) resurrection
• 复旦Fù dànFudan University, Shanghai, abbr. for 复旦大学
• 复印件fù yìn jiànphotocopy; duplicate
• 复试fù shìto sit for the second round of a two-stage exam
• 复合fù hécomplex; compound; composite
• 复仇fù chóuto avenge; vengeance
• 复发fù fāto recur (of a disease); to reappear; to relapse (into a former bad state)
• 复读fù dúto return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as…
• 复旦大学Fù dàn Dà xuéFudan University, Shanghai
• 复出fù chūto come back out of retirement; to get involved again after having withdrawn
• 复原fù yuánto restore (sth) to (its) former condition; to recover from illness; recovery
• 复述fù shùto repeat (one's own words or sb else's); (in the classroom) to paraphrase what one has…
• 复查fù cháto check again; to re-examine
• 复古fù gǔto return to old ways (a Confucian aspiration); to turn back the clock…
• 复数fù shù(linguistics) plural; (math) complex number
• 复杂性fù zá xìngcomplexity
• 复活节Fù huó jiéEaster
• 复议fù yìto reconsider
• 复员fù yuánto demobilize; demobilization

Words containing 复

• 回复huí fùto recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc); variant of 回覆
• 恢复huī fùto reinstate; to resume; to restore
• 重复chóng fùto repeat; to duplicate
• 反复fǎn fùrepeatedly; over and over; to upend
• 答复dá fùto answer; to reply; Reply to: (in email header)
• 报复bào fùto make reprisals; to retaliate; revenge; retaliation
• 修复xiū fùto restore; to renovate; (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc)
• 康复kāng fùto recuperate; to recover (health); to convalesce
• 不复bù fùno longer; not again
• 文艺复兴Wén yì fù xīngthe Renaissance
• 反反复复fǎn fǎn fù fùrepeatedly; time and time again
• 日复一日rì fù yī rìday after day
• 收复shōu fùto recover (lost territory etc); to recapture
• 光复guāng fùto recover (territory or power); the liberation of Taiwan from Japanese rule in 1945
• 年复一年nián fù yī nián(idiom) over the years; year after year
• 错综复杂cuò zōng fù zátangled and complicated (idiom)
• 繁复fán fùcomplicated
• 一去不复返yī qù bù fù fǎngone forever
• 平复píng fùto calm down; to subside; to be cured; to be healed
• 批复pī fùto issue an official written reply (in response to a subordinate's report or request)
• 周而复始zhōu ér fù shǐlit. the cycle comes back to the start (idiom); to move in circles…
• 严复Yán FùYan Fu (1853-1921), influential Chinese writer and translator of Western books, esp. on…
• 无以复加wú yǐ fù jiāin the extreme (idiom); incapable of further increase
• 往复wǎng fùto go and come back; to make a return trip; backwards and forwards…

Characters built on 日

These share the phonetic component 日 (rì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 普pǔgeneral; popular; everywhere
• 鲁lǔ(bound form) crass; stupid; rude
• 晤wùto meet (socially)
• 暑shǔheat; hot weather; summer heat
• 旭xùdawn; rising sun
• 暮mùevening; sunset
• 曙shǔ(bound form) daybreak; dawn; Taiwan pr. shù
• 昱yùbright light

Characters that look like 复

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 星xīngstar; heavenly body; satellite
• 莫mòdo not; there is none who
• 夏xiàsummer
• 昊hàovast and limitless; the vast sky
• 昱yùbright light
• 笈jítrunks (for books)

Sounds the same

Read fù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 副secondary; auxiliary; deputy
• 附to add; to attach; to be close to; to be attached
• 负to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on
• 付to pay; to hand over to; classifier for pairs or sets of things
• 富rich; abundant; wealthy
• 父(bound form) father; (bound form) male relative of father's generation…
• 傅(bound form) instructor; (literary) to instruct; to attach
• 妇woman
• 覆to cover; to overflow; to overturn
• 赋poetic essay; taxation; to bestow on
• 咐used in 吩咐
• 腹abdomen; stomach; belly