Dictionary › 复
复
fù
What 复 means
- to go and return
- to return
- to resume
- to return to a normal or original state
- to repeat
- again
- to recover
- to restore
- to turn over
- to reply
- to answer
- to reply to a letter
- to retaliate
- to carry out
Other readings
Example sentences
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重复！Repeat!
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复水难收。What is done cannot be undone.
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谨待复信。I am looking forward to hearing from you.
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早日康复。I hope you'll recover quickly.
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早日康复！Get well soon!
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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- 复出fù chūto come back out of retirement; to get involved again after having withdrawn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
Where 复 is taught
In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 3 Characters · Set 17 (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.
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- How characters are built from components.
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