复 (fù): meaning and stroke order
复 (fù) means to go and return, to return, to resume, to return to a normal or original state, to repeat.
复
- Simplified
- 复
- Traditional
- 復, 複, 覆
- Pinyin
- fù
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Stroke order of 复
复
- fù to go and return; to return
- fù to repeat; to double
- fù variant of 復|复[fu4]; to reply to a letter
- 9 strokes
- Traditional form: 復
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Meaning of 复
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fù
Traditional 復
- 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
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fù
Traditional 複
- to repeat
- to double
- to overlap
- complex (not simple)
- compound
- composite
- double
- diplo-
- duplicate
- overlapping
- to duplicate
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fù
Traditional 覆
- variant of 復|复[fu4]
- to reply to a letter
Radical and structure
- 复
- Radical 夊 (Kangxi radical 35) · 9 strokes · 𭥍 on top, 夊 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 复
- 反复 fǎn fù repeatedly; over and over
- 回复 huí fù to recover; to revert; to return to (good health, normal condition etc); variant of 回覆[hui2 fu4]
- 修复 xiū fù to restore; to renovate; (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc)
- 恢复 huī fù to reinstate; to resume
- 年复一年 nián fù yī nián (idiom) over the years; year after year
- 日复一日 rì fù yī rì day after day
- 复杂 fù zá complicated; complex
- 复习 fù xí to review; revision
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).