复
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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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 夊 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 复
- Common rank
- #318
- Unicode
- U+590D
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 复 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person 亻 who goes somewhere 夂 every day 日
How to remember it
duplicate · Heisig RSH #472
reclining + 日 day + walking legs — as a component also called: double back
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 复
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 高尔基复合体 | Golgi complex (in cell biology) | |
| 日复一日 | day after day | |
| 复数平面 | (math.) complex plane; Argand plane | |
| 复平面 | complex plane | |
| 军工复合体 | military-industrial complex | |
| 重复性 | repetitive | |
| 年复一年 | (idiom) over the years; year after year | |
| 光复会 | anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in 1904 under Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培[Cai4 Yuan2 pei2]; aka 復… | |
| 重复法 | repetition; duplication; reduplication; anadiplosis | |
| 不复 | no longer; not again | |
| 复理石 | flysch (loanword) | |
| 复市 | (of a shop, market) to resume trading | |
| 报复心 | vindictiveness | |
| 复学 | to return to school (after an interruption); to resume one's studies | |
| 复生 | to be reborn; to recover; to come back to life; to regenerate | |
| 报复性 | retaliatory | |
| 无以复加 | in the extreme (idiom); incapable of further increase | |
| 复会 | to resume a meeting | |
| 合义复词 | compound word such as 教室[jiao4 shi4] or 國家|国家[guo2 jia1], whose meaning is related to the … | |
| 同义反复 | tautology |
Sound family
These characters use 复 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 复 sound part | again, repeatedly; copy, duplicate; to restore, to return | |
| 腹 | stomach, belly, abdomen; inside | |
| 馥 | scent, fragrance, aroma | |
| 蝮 | viper, venomous snake | |
| 鳆 | abalone |