復

See also 复, and 覆

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 彳 (“walk”) + phonetic 复 (“repeat”)

walk back and forth.

Han character

復 (radical 60 彳+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人人日水 (HOOAE), four-corner 2824₇)

1. return
2. repeat
3. repeatedly

Derived characters

• 履 覆

References

• KangXi: page 369, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10183
• Dae Jaweon: page 695, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 834, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5FA9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

復 (simplified 复, Yale fuk6)

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Japanese

Kanji

復 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ふく (fuku)
• Kun: かえる (kaeru), かえす (kaesu), また (mata)

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Korean

Hanja

復 (hangeul 복, 부, revised bok, bu, McCune-Reischauer pok, pu, Yale pok, pu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

復 (simplified 复, pinyin fù (fu4), Wade-Giles fu⁴)

1. restore
2. retaliate
3. again

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Vietnamese

Han character

復 (phục, phức)